Dr. Lauren Tanz, an Epidemiologist with the CDC, talks about the rising numbers of teen overdose deaths in the United States; Dr. Dylan George, Director of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the CDC, discusses the CDC’s creation of a new national network to improve outbreak and disease modeling; and Public Health Thank You Day was yesterday.

CDC Webpage: Drug Overdose Deaths Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years — United States, July 2019–December 2021

NPR News Article: As more teens overdose on fentanyl, schools face a drug crisis unlike any other

CDC Webpage: Insight Net – National Outbreak Analytics & Disease Modeling Network

American Public Health Association Webpage: Public Health Thank You Day