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Keren Landman

@landmansplained.bsky.social
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public health/medicine reporter | epidemiologist, ID doc | health misinfo, @soljourno, Southern stuff | Signal: kerenlandman.70 | kerenlandman.com My recent work at Vox: www.vox.com/authors/keren-landman

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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My latest at Landmansplained: A retired microbiologist is out-investigating the federal government on a record-breaking Cyclospora outbreak. landmansplained.com/p/you-don-t-...
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Nope. CDC/FDA staffing cuts have slowed 💩 outbreak response, but didn't cause the outbreak itself. If any political dysfunction is to blame for the outbreak itself, it's pre-DOGE...and that matters. Full breakdown in my latest newsletter at @landmansplained landmansplained.com/p/how-much-o...
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How much of the Cyclospora shitstorm can we really blame on DOGE? ew post
It's so hard to resist a good villain narrative
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Holy shit Also, "Beepthroat" lol 🤌 www.beepthroat.com
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BeepThroat: The BeltLine Files
An independent public-records project documenting how Atlanta's voter-approved BeltLine light rail gave way to a driverless-shuttle pilot. Every claim links to a source document.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Is anyone else having trouble with their email ending up in recipients' junk mail? All week, nearly all the emails I've sent to new contacts (from @gmail.com addresses, one newer and one very old) have gotten trapped in spam filters. Not using autosender, haven't been hacked. Just me?
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Mi Barrio was bad
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
SCOOP: US is sending PHS officers to Kenya to screen Americans returning from Ebola-affected areas. Will they assess individual risk, or treat everyone as high-risk like hantavirus cruise passengers? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert-the-us-government-plans-to-screen-americans-for-ebola-overseas-1d65
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NEWS ALERT: The US government plans to screen Americans for Ebola overseas
Dozens of uniformed personnel are expected to deploy to the DRC to staff a field unit this week.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
SCOOP: US is sending PHS officers to Kenya to screen Americans returning from Ebola-affected areas. Will they assess individual risk, or treat everyone as high-risk like hantavirus cruise passengers? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert-the-us-government-plans-to-screen-americans-for-ebola-overseas-1d65
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NEWS ALERT: The US government plans to screen Americans for Ebola overseas
Dozens of uniformed personnel are expected to deploy to the DRC to staff a field unit this week.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
TIRED: panicking about Hot Plague Ship Summer WIRED: panicking about not having a public health infrastructure INSPIRED: panicking about not having enough Sam Greenfield in my earballs I get into it in the latest issue of Landmansplained: landmansplained.com/p/hot-plague...
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Hot Plague Ship Summer
And more on what we’re talking about when we talk about CDC
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
ok I’ll bite, what is an emma chamberlain
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
just gave my entire night to canva and let me tell you what I didn't get is an animated logo
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Return of the Obra Dinn but make it real life www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...
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Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship
The outbreak was reported aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship as it travelled from Argentina to Cape Verde.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Went to a public health watch party for a big CDC conference Ate Costco snax Felt existential dread More here: landmansplained.com/p/i-went-to-...
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I went to a CDC conference watch party and found a fight about the future
IT
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
no offense but how dumb are drug dealers roughdraftatlanta.com/2026/04/21/a...
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Atlanta Police make major drug bust at marijuana 'pop-up event'
Atlanta Police Department arrests 40 people and seizes over a thousand pounds of drugs and guns during a chaotic 'pop-up event.'
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service turns 75 this year. Today, its annual conference kicks off. It's a showcase, a professional speed-dating event, and a reunion for something being actively dismantled. I wrote about it in the first issue of my newsletter: landmansplained.com/p/gathering-...
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Gathering anyway
Public health Burning Man is this week, and it is not business as usual.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@sjsteimer.bsky.social 's take on the millennial feminist autobios is the only one I wanted to read, and I was RIGHT haters-guide-to-living-well.beehiiv.com/p/my-insuffe...
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My insufferable generation
We will probably post through our midlife crises!
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
lol “I don’t eat vegetables because I want to stay three.” 👏
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I'm launching a newsletter! Landmansplained will be about public health + other things. If you're familiar with my work at Vox, it'll sound familiar, but a little looser and more personal. 1st issue will be about a bizarro CDC conference taking place this week. Join me at landmansplained.com
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Home | Landmansplained
A newsletter for people who care about public health (even if they don't totally know what it is)
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I use #Descript because I enjoy fixing audio transcripts and then having the AI fuck it up all over again and then fixing the audio transcript the AI fucked up and then having the AI fuck it up all over again and then fixing it one more time because 🤷‍♀️ and then having the AI fuck it up AGAIN and then
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Fuck avocado straight to hell
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
would honestly applaud for either
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
not sure what the people of Decatur GA did to deserve the absolute thicket of bullshit that is driving in its downtown these days but it must’ve been real bad
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
And it sounds like his diaper is FULL
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Why does the AJC keep reposting winter weather alerts from late January? Wrong answers only.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
making friends in the bathroom line downtown the night Bridget Everett’s in town >>>
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
did the AJC also fire its entire social team? its gonna be 80 degrees here tomorrow (which, notably, is Monday)
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stephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com · 11/02/2026
UPDATE/SCOOP: An FBI affidavit used to seize 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County omitted key findings from state investigators that undercut many questions about wrongdoing, an @npr.org analysis finds. Read the Secretary of State's office investigative reports:
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The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims
An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”
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sorry about your cookies
this is probably TMI
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
sorry to be smug but I told y'all not to trust the CDC website two months ago www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
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What It’s Like to Work Inside a Broken CDC
Agency workers say that information on subjects other than vaccines is largely reliable—for now.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
wait so all this time all I had to be was hot and chaotic and not even a good writer? jfc
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This interview by @aliroginpbs.bsky.social with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is a masterclass. It should be taught in j-schools and she should receive a medal for it. Here are just a few of the things she does while making it all look easy: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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FDA head explains decision to drop 'black box' warnings from menopause hormone treatment
The FDA announced it would begin asking drug companies to remove so-called “black box” warnings for hormones prescribed to treat symptoms of menopause. The FDA says the warning has dissuaded generatio...
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
that's not your faith babe
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
oopsie
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
who designs smoke alarms? I just want to talk at 4:30am
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
About a dozen people www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/26/r...
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RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement supporters gather outside CDC
They stood with signs applauding RFK Jr. and the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Experts are saying Americans "can't trust anything" out of the CDC. But employees tell me that's simply not true: lots of CDC workers are still at their desks doing good work, and implying they're not is both wrong and unhelpful. My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
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What It’s Like to Work Inside a Broken CDC
Agency workers say that information on subjects other than vaccines is largely reliable—for now.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I SAID MAX BLAU
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I wrote about Charlie Kirk’s death, mourning and conflict, Shabbat and shiva www.vox.com/politics/461... (gift link)
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How to mourn Charlie Kirk in our polarized age
Sitting shiva for Charlie Kirk.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Looking forward to the day when I get to do to the Beltline parking enforcement people what they just did to me ✌️
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Does RFK Jr. understand that CDC doesn't make policy? Serious question
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It's not 2018 any more. Bitching about a headline that makes you mad without reading the story running directly beneath it is no longer an acceptable activity for adults to engage in. DO BETTER, ACTUAL JOURNALISTS POSTING THIS SHIT
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
OKAY COOL POST BUT DID YOU READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE is what I am going to die screaming
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Hey clinicians: Have you ever called a CDC clinical consult line? Maybe for a patient with suspected malaria, diphtheria, botulism, parasitic disease, or ebola? I want to hear from you! (For a story, but we can talk anonymously if you prefer.) DMs are open
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Maybe this is why Monarez insisted Trump himself fire her
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Watching the @apnews.com feed of the CDC applause line bidding farewell to recently resigned senior leadership and struck that they're calling it a walkout. It's not a walkout.
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Austin L. Ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
How would Taylor Cross fix Atlanta? Many parents are bold enough to believe in equity, but not brave enough to practice it. If we all sent our kids to the public school in the neighborhood where we live, our city would be a better place for all of us. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-taylor-c...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We’re working on it. That’s all I can say for now. Subscribe to The Onion.
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
it wasn’t even a good sandwich
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