March 14, 2022
From the Frontlines: UNC Health Teammates Reflect on the COVID-19 Pandemic this Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, we asked our healthcare workers how they have been navigating life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Category: Covid-19 / Coronavirus
March 3, 2022
Reflecting on Two Years of COVID-19
Today we are marking the completion of our second full year of living and working through the COVID-19 pandemic. We have shared this experience, but we will remember it in ways that are unique to each of us.
March 3, 2022
Reflexión Sobre Dos Años de COVID-19
Hoy conmemoramos el fin de nuestro segundo año de vivir y trabajar durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Hemos compartido esta experiencia, pero cada uno de nosotros la recordará de manera única.
March 3, 2022
University Masking Guidelines Changing March 7
Masks will no longer be required in most campus spaces but will remain required in all health care settings. Research labs will follow mask requirements that were in place prior to the pandemic.
March 1, 2022
Distancing Guidelines Reduced in Non-Clinical School of Medicine Spaces
The UNC School of Medicine is reducing its enhanced distancing guidelines in non-clinical spaces, including laboratories, meeting spaces and break room spaces, to align with the University’s COVID-19 Community Standards. Masks will remain a requirement in indoor spaces on campus.
February 24, 2022
Chimerix, READDI at UNC Announce Preclinical Data on COVID Anti-viral Treatment
The compound CMX521 significantly reduced lung viral titer and symptoms in a SARS-CoV-2 mouse model, as reported by biomedical company Chimerix in collaboration with the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. UNC School of Medicine faculty Nat Moorman, PhD, and Mark Heise, PhD, are key researchers in this program.
January 31, 2022
Watch: An Overview of COVID-19 Oral Therapeutics (Paxlovid + Molnupiravir) with Dr. Wohl
David Wohl, MD, provides an overview of two COVID oral therapeutics, Paxlovid and Molnupiravir. We are receiving increasing supplies of these medications and want to ensure all clinicians know when it is (and isn’t) appropriate to prescribe them to help prevent hospitalization for COVID+ patients.
January 28, 2022
Raff Talks with News and Observer About Latest COVID Wave Impact Inside SICU at UNC Medical Center
Lauren Raff, MD, Adult Associate Trauma Medical Director talks with the News and Observer about the latest wave of COVID-19 and how it has affected seriously-ill COVID-positive patients inside the surgical/trauma intensive care unit at UNC Medical Center.
January 26, 2022
Pharmacist’s Update: COVID-19 Therapeutics
Current therapeutic options and resources to aid appropriate selection.
January 26, 2022
Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19 Mini-Symposium
Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19, a free virtual mini-symposium from 1:00-3:00pm on Wednesday February 23, 2022. Presenters will explore how data has informed our response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the collection, analysis, and interpretation of COVID-related data.
January 25, 2022
Willis Authors BMJ Editorial on Decrease in Hospital Admissions for Child Infections during Pandemic
The UNC School of Medicine’s Zachary Willis, MD, MPH, co-authored an editorial published in the British Medical Journal in conjunction with new research that shows dramatic reductions in hospital admissions for common and severe childhood infections in England during the pandemic.
December 21, 2021
Q&A: Dittmer Explains How CORVASEQ Surveillance Program Detects Variants like Omicron
Dirk Dittmer, PhD, explains how UNC-led CORVASEQ program helps to track the spread and development of variants like Omicron in North Carolina.