May 4, 2021
UNC Football Coach Mack Brown Gets the COVID-19 Vaccine. You should too.
If you haven't been vaccinated, please go to www.YourShot.org.
Category: Covid-19 / Coronavirus
April 28, 2021
UNC’s Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial Enrolling Adolescents
Vaccinating children against COVID-19 is critical to ending this pandemic, and you can help. UNC’s trial site will begin enrolling children 12-17 years of age on May 6.
April 26, 2021
Alleviating the Vaccine Gap: A Community Health Worker’s Contribution
Brandon Teal, a UNC Health Alliance community health worker, shares his experience contributing to UNC Health’s equitable vaccine distribution mission.
April 21, 2021
Women’s Health Education Center Releases COVID Vaccine Video in Spanish
The Women's Health Education Center (WHEC) at UNC Medical Center released a COVID vaccine video in Spanish, which includes information about vaccination and pregnancy/lactation; possible side effects; and recommendations on when to contact a health provider.
April 20, 2021
UNC Health joins nationwide campaign with other leading US hospitals to promote COVID-19 vaccination
Led by Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic, the campaign "Get the Vaccine to Save Lives," is designed to reassure the public that vaccines are safe, effective and necessary to achieve herd immunity and a return to normal activities.
April 20, 2021
UNC Joins National Effort to Study Allergic Reactions to COVID mRNA Vaccines
UNC School of Medicine’s David Peden, MD, is the UNC site principal investigator of the NIH-sponsored study, and Scott Commins, MD, PhD, is co-PI. Participants can now enroll at UNC-Chapel Hill, the only site in North Carolina.
April 16, 2021
Fit Matters Most When Double Masking to Protect Yourself from COVID-19
A study led by Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, associate professor of infectious diseases at the UNC School of Medicine and director of UNC Medical Center Infection Prevention, and William D. Bennett, PhD, professor of medicine in the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, shows that wearing two masks can significantly increase the effectiveness of preventing the spread of COVID-19, but is heavily dependent on how well they fit over a person’s nose and mouth.
April 15, 2021
From UNC Medical Center Infection Prevention: Seasonal Allergies vs. COVID-19
With the return of pollen in our area, many of us will suffer the effects of seasonal allergies. Allergy symptoms can be similar to the symptoms of COVID-19, and it is sometimes hard to tell the difference.
April 14, 2021
The Status of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa
April 16 at 9 am, Wessam Mankoula, MD, Lead of the Africa CDC Emergency Operations Centre, will give a 30-minute presentation followed by brief reports and a panel discussion moderated by Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, science director for UNC Project-Malawi.
April 13, 2021
UNC Joins Post-Hospital Thrombosis Prevention Study for Covid Patients
UNC is now a fully active clinical site for the ACTIV-4c Post-Hospital Thrombosis Prevention Study, led at UNC-Chapel Hill by Raj Kasthuri, MBBS, Professor of Medicine. This protocol is part of the larger ACTIV (Accelerating COVID-Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccine) study.
April 12, 2021
Monoclonal Antibody Injection Significantly Reduces COVID-19 Progression
Data from a phase 3 clinical trial for REGEN-COV, a combination monoclonal antibody therapy (casirivimab with imdevimab), is part of the NIH-sponsored COVID Prevention Network, co-led by Myron Cohen at UNC-Chapel Hill.
April 8, 2021
From Mistrust to Trust: Barbershops and Hair Salons Spread the Word About Rise Above COVID
Rise Above COVID, a nationwide movement, partners with nearly 100 Black-owned barbershops and beauty salons in the Raleigh-Durham area to raise awareness and encourage enrollment in a clinical trial called ACTIV-2.