KFF Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

. “They don’t provide enough information and enough transparency about where these numbers are coming from,” said Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist who specializes in disease surveillance. This is what renders California’s increase mysterious. Sign up for its newsletters here. Learn more about KFF.

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The Hill

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Its really hard to tell whats actually happening, and Im sure the agencies dont know whats happening and whether they should go forward or not, whether funding should continue or whether funding should stop, said Josh Michaud, associate director of Global Health Policy at health policy nonprofit KFF.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

JANUARY 23, 2025

Its scope is huge—everything from disease surveillance to mental health to non-communicable diseases. has robust health infrastructure, its own vaccine and diagnostic certification systems, and disease surveillance capabilities through agencies like CDC. Then, there is a scope problem.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Trump’s pledge of mass deportations will have repercussions, said Tania Pacheco-Werner, director of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute in California, whether they happen or not. ” Sam Scarpino, a disease surveillance specialist in the Boston area, wondered how many other mysterious infections had gone undetected.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Trumps pledge of mass deportations will have repercussions whether they happen or not, said Tania Pacheco-Werner, director of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute in California. Sam Scarpino, a disease surveillance specialist in the Boston area, wondered how many other mysterious infections had gone undetected.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 10, 2025

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