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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 · 30/05/2026
”great”
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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 · 20/05/2026
Sorry but I just don't read a media posture into the hed/blurb here, and the article is pretty neutral and clear on who is actually beefing with who
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The article doesn't seem critical of WHO; in 3rd graf it explains Tedros' defending statement was in response to criticism from Marco Rubio.
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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 · 01/05/2026
did you know that online she is known as DELTALINA!!!
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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
I have been muttering "do you want to be nice or do you want to be what the heck?" all afternoon so I do think it has tshirt legs!! ringer in a women's medium for me pls
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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
this is the best thing to happen in my mentions probably ever, thanks all 🤩
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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
yesssssss congrats Sam!!!
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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 · 18/03/2026
love, dad
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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 · 24/11/2025
straight outta central casting
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
ok but...what's the reason
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
also worth noting: from my own experience, I can tell you that many aspects of CDC comms are also now controlled by HHS, so on-the-record comments/conversations with journalists are not guaranteed to represent the actual perspective of the CDC
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I TOLD YOU
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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
-She repeatedly corrects the use of an outdated and unrepresentative statement from an authority -She clearly explains what specifically is inconsistent about the agency’s recent actions -She ends with a clear statement of the problem anyone can understand -She doesn’t let him have the last word
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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 · 05/11/2025
!!!!!!!!
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
my man I am just tryna maintain
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
-curse at/remove any squinting/shivering people or animals from the hallway before any of them pee on the rug -congratulate yourself and take stepladder downstairs -enjoy 5 minutes of silence before the wrong-battery-orientation chirps start (the delay is because of Obama) -burn house down
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
-smush the little housing door shut. there will be a click. do not allow this to reassure you. -press and hold the button labeled “test|silence” (the silence part is a lie) -there will be three loud beeps from (why??) ALL the smoke alarms in the house -at least now your partner is awake
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
-orient the new battery in your favorite direction (just guess, there are no clues) and smush it into the housing. there will not be a click or a snap or any other cue to tell you whether you are right or wrong
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