Dr. Chris T. Pernell

MSNBC Columnist

Dr. Chris T. Pernell, MD, MPH, FACPM, is a public health physician and health equity champion. She is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the daughter of a father lost to the coronavirus pandemic and the sister of a Covid-19 long hauler.


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Dr. Chris T. Pernell

5years ago
Opinion

A year of Covid requires new investment in America’s health care workers

Essential workers like doctors haven’t been able to pause to honor our dead or to give voice to the unnatural mass casualty of the pandemic.

5years ago
Opinion

The Covid-19 vaccines are safe. The time to ‘wait and see’ is over.

We know who’s still skeptical. And we know how to reach them.

5years ago
Opinion

Why Covid vaccine skepticism is such a problem in Black and brown communities

Black Americans need more than vaccines. We need an overhaul of a broken health care system.