Esther Choo
@choo.bsky.social
Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Writer | Health Services Research | Public Health
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Esther Choo
@choo.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
From nine former CDC directors, who collectively worked at the agency for more than 100 years:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Read every word.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Read every word.
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.
You just know these quiet heroes at the Oregon Department of Human Services hustled to get the payments out the door knowing families depend on them
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You just know these quiet heroes at the Oregon Department of Human Services hustled to get the payments out the door knowing families depend on them
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Hey look👀
Getting a COVID vaccine is safer for kids when compared to getting a COVID infection
Has your family gotten their COVID booster yet?
Getting a COVID vaccine is safer for kids when compared to getting a COVID infection
Has your family gotten their COVID booster yet?
Important study
Children & adolescents are "far more likely to experience rare but serious heart & inflammatory conditions after a COVID-19 infection than after being vaccinated–and the risks after infection lasted much longer"
Next post has link to study itself
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www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
Children & adolescents are "far more likely to experience rare but serious heart & inflammatory conditions after a COVID-19 infection than after being vaccinated–and the risks after infection lasted much longer"
Next post has link to study itself
1/3
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
COVID-19 infection poses higher, longer heart risks to children than vaccination
A comprehensive analysis of English health records finds higher risk of rare heart complications in children and adolescents who caught COVID-19 compared to those who received an mRNA-based COVID vacc...
www.gavi.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hey look👀
Getting a COVID vaccine is safer for kids when compared to getting a COVID infection
Has your family gotten their COVID booster yet?
Getting a COVID vaccine is safer for kids when compared to getting a COVID infection
Has your family gotten their COVID booster yet?
“an economy that works great for those at the very top and leaves everyone else hanging on by their fingernails” www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/rese...
UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need
This past year has been indelibly shaped by concentrated wealth and power. The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion weal
www.oxfamamerica.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“an economy that works great for those at the very top and leaves everyone else hanging on by their fingernails” www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/rese...
Governors have never mattered more - @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Governors have never mattered more - @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
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This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.
Nero would be proud.
Nero would be proud.
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.
Nero would be proud.
Nero would be proud.
“just as the gov’t stops addressing food insecurity & as healthcare costs skyrocket, the admin permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores…” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-29... - Heather Cox Richardson, continuing to witness this disaster
October 29, 2025
Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“just as the gov’t stops addressing food insecurity & as healthcare costs skyrocket, the admin permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores…” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-29... - Heather Cox Richardson, continuing to witness this disaster
Sometimes the primary relevant diagnoses are cruelty and greed.
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Sometimes the primary relevant diagnoses are cruelty and greed.
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POV: YOU’RE ASIAN
You call every woman too old to be your sibling and too young to be your grandmother “Auntie,” this is just reality, neither I nor Zohran Mamdani makes the rules
You call every woman too old to be your sibling and too young to be your grandmother “Auntie,” this is just reality, neither I nor Zohran Mamdani makes the rules
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
POV: YOU’RE ASIAN
You call every woman too old to be your sibling and too young to be your grandmother “Auntie,” this is just reality, neither I nor Zohran Mamdani makes the rules
You call every woman too old to be your sibling and too young to be your grandmother “Auntie,” this is just reality, neither I nor Zohran Mamdani makes the rules
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A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
n.pr
October 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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Just our dipshit vice president literally advocating that undocumented people — who pay taxes — should bleed out on the sidewalk instead of going to the ER.
Wait till he sees how crowded the ERs get when hospitals close due to his & Trump’s massive Medicaid cuts.
Wait till he sees how crowded the ERs get when hospitals close due to his & Trump’s massive Medicaid cuts.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 2, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Just our dipshit vice president literally advocating that undocumented people — who pay taxes — should bleed out on the sidewalk instead of going to the ER.
Wait till he sees how crowded the ERs get when hospitals close due to his & Trump’s massive Medicaid cuts.
Wait till he sees how crowded the ERs get when hospitals close due to his & Trump’s massive Medicaid cuts.
Wait until he hears that the rule is that we see people in order of acuity and time in department. Period.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Wait until he hears that the rule is that we see people in order of acuity and time in department. Period.
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If you get shot your assailant’s gun was a right
If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege
If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you get shot your assailant’s gun was a right
If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege
If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege
Update from the Portland suburbs. Yesterday went to a peaceful rally where there were adorable little girls dressed as princesses holding signs that read, “NO KINGS ONLY PRINCESSES.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Update from the Portland suburbs. Yesterday went to a peaceful rally where there were adorable little girls dressed as princesses holding signs that read, “NO KINGS ONLY PRINCESSES.”
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
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Visit... War-Ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Visit... War-Ravaged Portland
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
Here are some heroes for today: Idaho physicians fighting for women’s health in a heartbreaking practice environment (35% of the ob/gyn workforce have left since Dobbs) after realizing that there was no cavalry coming #WIMS
September 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Here are some heroes for today: Idaho physicians fighting for women’s health in a heartbreaking practice environment (35% of the ob/gyn workforce have left since Dobbs) after realizing that there was no cavalry coming #WIMS
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Oregon will allow pharmacists to administer Covid and other vaccines, starting TODAY. Whew! Thank you Gov. Kotek, West coast Gov’s, Oregon BOP. Get ‘em now, folks! www.oregon.gov/pharmacy/Doc... #covid19 #medsky #pharmsky @choo.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @tinakotek.bsky.social
www.oregon.gov
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Oregon will allow pharmacists to administer Covid and other vaccines, starting TODAY. Whew! Thank you Gov. Kotek, West coast Gov’s, Oregon BOP. Get ‘em now, folks! www.oregon.gov/pharmacy/Doc... #covid19 #medsky #pharmsky @choo.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @tinakotek.bsky.social
Sickening. I’m sick of it and we all should be.
September 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Sickening. I’m sick of it and we all should be.
“And so my state of Oregon, along with Washington, California and Hawaii, wisely decided to step away from a dysfunctional enterprise and establish its own evidence-based health alliance.”
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
West Coast Health Alliance is a noble effort to offset RFK Jr.'s damage at the CDC
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.
www.msnbc.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“And so my state of Oregon, along with Washington, California and Hawaii, wisely decided to step away from a dysfunctional enterprise and establish its own evidence-based health alliance.”
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...