Dr. Julie Morita

Julie Morita, executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was a commissioner for the Chicago Department of Public Health and served on the Biden Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board in a personal capacity. Follow her on Twitter: @DrJulieMorita

A line stretches down the block as people wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 in New York on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. Lines stretch around the block for testing sites, refrigerated morgue trucks are being ordered, infections are soaring so much that they resemble a straight line and not a curve, European countries are imposing new travel restrictions. A sense of dismay about the pandemic and the omicron variant has overtaken the mood as the holiday season approaches. (AP Photo/Brooke Lansdale)

Opinion

December 21, 2021

America must lead the world to defeat COVID. Here are five ways to win

COVID-19 is still killing well over 1,000 Americans every day; we cannot accept this as a ‘new normal.’

Hispanic Senior mature woman being vaccinated

Opinion

March 22, 2021

Drs. Besser & Morita: COVID vaccine questions – It's normal to have them. We did, too. Here's what we learned

With millions of vaccinations happening every day in the U.S., and millions more on the horizon, people have understandably been asking a lot of questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.