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Marisa Donnelly

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Covers:  Lifestyle, health/wellness, love & relationships, self-love, empowerment, faith, education, music/culture, healthy living, identity, and purpose, among others.
Writer/editor, teacher, coach + creative strategist ✍ Multipassionate bonus mama 👩‍👦 Founder of @wordandsole ✨ ❤ → instagram.com/_marisadonnelly

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Marisa Donnelly is a prolific and engaging writer, editor, teacher, writing coach, and influencer based in the San Diego area. She has published thousands of articles accumulating over 21.2+ million page views and has bylines in Huffington Post, Bustle, BossBabe, Thought Catalog, and more. 

Marisa specializes in creating SEO-friendly, compelling and conversational copy, and has over ten years in the industry writing and editing for clients, businesses, and brands worldwide.

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Marisa Donnelly’s Journalist Portfolio

Word & Sole

Word & Sole

A girl with a passion for writing and inspired by both memory and place--where she is, where she's been, wher…

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Miss Donnelly's Daily Apple

Miss Donnelly's Daily Apple

A Bite of the Teaching Life: A collection of teaching experiences, tools, resources, projects, samples, sampl…

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Live Free, Live Healthy

Live Free, Live Healthy

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Quote Catalog

Quote Catalog

A collection of quotes by Marisa Donnelly.

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Marisa Donnelly

Marisa Donnelly

Marisa is a Midwest-born, West Coast-based writer, poet, and essayist who loves cheap Italian wine, sunshine,…

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Articles

Did Pete Hegseth single-handedly raise the R₀ of flu?

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By Jeremy S. Faust, Marisa Donnelly Verified
| Inside Medicine
Influenza particles, with their new best friend, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Influenza particles: photo by NIH-NIAID/Image Point FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group. Pete Hegseth photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu. Getty Images Last week, news broke that an influenza outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas had caused around 160 people to become sick. The timing was bizarre and not. On one hand, the US armed forces ended its flu vaccine mandate in April.
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A nationwide wastewater monitoring pilot to identify legal and illegal substances and enable future substance use research

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By Peter R Chai, Kaitlyn Hess, Marisa Donnelly Verified, Mariana G. Matus
| Nature Verified
Wastewater-based epidemiology has been proposed as a faster, near real-time window into community substance use, but national-scale implementation in the United States has been elusive.
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Hantavirus: Situation update and getting nerdy

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By Katelyn K. Jetelina, Marisa Donnelly Verified
| Your Local Epidemiologist
Thanks to all of you who joined the Substack live today! The Hantavirus outbreak is a rapidly evolving situation, and rumors and falsehoods are spreading. Dr. Marisa Donnelly (author of YLE NY and former CDC EIS officer) and I broke down what we know so far, how we’re thinking about it, clarify that CDC (and their brilliant scientists) are involved, and bring you along on this scientific discovery ride. Here is the recording. This is not Covid-19.
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