While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s slashing of public health infrastructure.
Patricia Callahan is exploring how federal policies affect the health of vulnerable people.
Patricia Callahan, who co-wrote today’s feature with Duaa Eldeib, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering the CDC as it grapples with cuts in staff and funding and a new administration determined to end longstanding global health programs and collaboration.
Patricia Callahan
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Portion of deportation flights between when President Donald Trump took office in January and March 21 that have been on charter planes, according to the advocacy group Witness at the Border. Reporter Mackenzie Funk spoke with some of the planes’ flight attendants, who told him disaster is “only a matter of time.”
