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The New Normal

Coronavirus has changed the world. Here’s how experts think it will affect our lives in five years.

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THE NEW NORMAL

Esther Choo says we need to use this moment to resolve inequalities in healthcare

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It took a global pandemic and stay-at-home orders for 1.5 billion people worldwide, but something is finally occurring to us: The future we thought we expected may not be the one we get.

We know that things will change; how they’ll change is a mystery. To envision a future altered by coronavirus, Quartz asked dozens of experts for their best predictions on how the world will be different in five years.

Below is an answer from Esther Choo, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. As a cofounder of Equity Quotient, which conducts assessments of healthcare company culture, a founding member of TIME’S UP Healthcare, she works to ending racism and sexism in healthcare.

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