Tarryn Mento
Health ReporterTarryn Mento served as KPBS' health reporter. She had previously worked as the multimedia producer for MetroFocus at WNET in New York City. She was also a Pulliam Fellow at the Arizona Republic. Tarryn has reported from three countries and in two languages. Her work has been published by The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, and El Nuevo Herald. She completed her master's degree at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where she was named a Carnegie-Knight News 21 Fellow. A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Tarryn completed her undergraduate education in journalism at SUNY-Albany.
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A KPBS analysis of COVID-19 community outbreaks shows ZIP codes that include the Gaslamp Quarter and Pacific Beach have had the most outbreaks. -
KPBS Midday EditionFrom federal testing guidelines to improving air circulation in a classroom, we asked a local infectious disease specialist to respond to your questions about the novel coronavirus. -
KPBS Midday EditionKaiser Permanente already received its first shipment of flu vaccines and they want people to get them because lung damage from flu makes you more susceptible to other respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19. -
Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday announced the first California county was officially removed from the state’s watch list. But even though local officials said it met the criteria last week, San Diego wasn’t the region Newsom named. -
A county spokesman confirmed Friday evening that local and state officials are not reaching the same number for the region’s rate of new cases of the virus. -
Local health system leaders and a county official asked the federal government for help with testing or screening at the border, but ultimately California and U.S. officials did not agree to fully fund a local proposal.
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San Diego County's public health agency is one of six across the state that will receive $750,000 over three years to help address issues of dementia, the California Department of Public Health announced Tuesday. -
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