Yasmin Rafiei
@YasminRafiei
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Reporter-in-Residence @UCBerkeleyIRP with bylines in @NewYorker, among others. Rhodes scholar @UniofOxford & @Stanford dropout.
🇨🇦 in Berkeley, California
Joined October 2015
Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in @NewYorker
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@CristinaStasia @CMSGov @NEJM Dr. Stasia, I'm grateful for all you do, too—but particularly for that first class I ever took with you @UAlberta. Bent the arc of my life undeniably further towards service.
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If the rule passes, over 80% of nursing homes would need to hire more nursing staff—that's a truly lifesaving change for elderly residents! More soon..🪡2/2
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An important piece of reportage by my friend and colleague @bmyeung, that asks the question: Who should be held liable for human trafficking?
I have a story out today in the @NewYorker. This is a story that asks you to think about, as one expert put it to me, "the ways that human trafficking intersects with the legitimate economy."
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More from @jburnmurdoch here..
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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RT @hannahdreier: Inside a Phoenix homeless camp so immense it operates as its own separate economy. Blue fentanyl pills sell for $2. Young…
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"Democracies need pandemic strategies that can succeed in the divided communities they have, not just in the cohesive ones they hope to build."
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@AzmatZahra @NYTmag @nytimes @jakesilverstein @ByLukeMitchell Warmest, warmest congrats, Azmat. I can't wait to read all your investigations ahead.
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RT @NewYorker: Why do deaths skyrocket in private-equity-owned nursing homes? @YasminRafiei reports on the acquisition of St. Joseph’s Home…
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RT @michaelluo: Remarkable investigation by @YasminRafiei, who was in Stanford med school when she started looking into this story. She w…
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Thrilled — and my Twitter DMs are open for tips!
Yasmin Rafiei (@YasminRafiei) is a California-based investigative journalist focused on healthcare + health policy reform. A former Rhodes scholar, Rafiei has written for @guardian, @ForeignPolicy + @NEJM, among others. As a fellow, she’ll report on domestic homicide prevention.
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RT @typemediacenter: 🎉 Type is excited to announce @typeinvestigate's 2022-23 Ida B. Wells fellows: @imsafiyacharles, @Tanvim, @Prado_Repor…
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RT @jodikantor: This is a dispatch for history. About a mass grave of children. One killed on the soccer field. Another so young that an um…
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RT @srijeeva: I spent last week w/ Paul in rural Rwanda in morning report, rounding on patients.This past week an AIDS patient passed away…
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