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.

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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41d ago

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How to keep your residents healthy when the CDC doesn’t want the job

Forming the West Coast Health Alliance is how California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii are picking up the slack left by RFK Jr.'s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
120d ago

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The NIH says health disparity research is discriminatory. That’s beyond ignorant.

“This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s L.G.B.T.Q. community,” Judge William Young wrote in a ruling against the NIH.
202d ago

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As physicians, we're pleading with you to get a little angrier

President Donald Trump dismantling America's public health infrastructure and leaving people vulnerable to deadly diseases ought to make more people angry
219d ago

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The Covid pandemic left healthcare workers burned out and demoralized

The erosion of trust in health care and public health professions over the course of the pandemic has left many health care workers demoralized.
265d ago

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I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost.

Research grants don't just pay for the material and technical resources to conduct a research project. They cover the salary and benefits of the researcher and the staff.
289d ago

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2024 was a good year for medical progress. But that alone won’t save us.

Science magazine named lenacapavir its "Breakthrough of the Year" for its remarkable efficacy in preventing HIV infection.
423d ago

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Biden’s right that we need new innovations in cancer care. Here’s what we need more.

At Tulane University, President Joe Biden announced the awarding of $150 million for cancer research as part of his touted “Cancer Moonshot.”
540d ago

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I’m an E.R. doc. Idaho’s argument to SCOTUS reveals an ignorance of what I do.

Idaho's argument that its abortion ban has an exception if it's necessary to prevent death doesn't jibe with emergency room practices or medical ethics.
616d ago

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Past vaccination efforts made us forget how bad measles is. It’s back to remind us.

Covid, disinformation and the rise of personal exemptions are why measles has reappeared in the U.S. after it was wiped out more than 20 years ago.
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Yes, the new Covid vaccine costs money. Yes, you should get it.

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the latest Covid vaccines, updated to protect against current strains of the coronavirus.
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'Covid's back on the board,' and ER doctors like me are bracing for an awful fall

Throughout the past month, Covid cases have been ticking back up, and emergency room doctors like me are bracing for an awful fall.
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