Dr. Esther Choo
MSNBC Columnist
Esther Choo, M.D. M.P.H., is an emergency medicine physician, health policy researcher and founding member of Equity Quotient, a company that advises organizations on building cultures of equity. She has provided commentary on the pandemic and other health care topics through appearances on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and Yahoo! Finance and editorials published in The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, The Washington Post, NBC Think and USA Today.
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Attempting to create a system that will issue public health guidelines like the CDC will be a monumental task for Western states in a new alliance.
Studying health disparities isn’t about promoting one group over another. Figuring out when, and for whom, things aren’t working is routine science.
Anger is usually looked down upon, even pathologized, but we’re living in a moment where getting angry is necessary.
In some ways, health care went through a portal during Covid and exited in a different reality.
This is a potentially devastating event — not just for the scientific community, but for all Americans.
This year we saw more examples of the destructive effort to undermine abortion as a health service. But overreach into health practices was not limited to abortion care.
Dazzling scientific successes don’t mean much if we can’t address the barriers that keep a significant proportion of the population from accessing those discoveries.
In medicine, the standard that we are held to by our profession, our ethics and public expectation is to prevent harm and to treat illness as early as possible.
While all states allow exemptions for medical reasons, and most allow religious exemptions, nonmedical, nonreligious exemptions open the door for measles outbreaks.
A CDC panel has recommended that everyone over 6 months old get the new Covid vaccines.
