Category: Infectious Diseases
Wohl Featured in News and Observer COVID Updates
COVID Vaccine Live Updates: Here’s What to Know in North Carolina On July 24 The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in North Carolina has nearly doubled since early July and is at its highest since mid-May. State health officials said about 94% of new cases are people who are not vaccinated. Many of them are the delta variant, which spreads more easily. David Wohl, MD, professor … Read more
As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Wohl Recognizes the Need to Return to Mask Rules
With COVID-19 cases rising, will mask mandates return to North Carolina? A CBS-17 news report says Los Angeles and several California cities have gone back to mandatory mask wearing. Lawmakers in Arkansas and Missouri are also talking about reimposing the restriction. David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, said he believes it’s time for mask … Read more
COVID-19 Delta Variant Q & A with Drs. Cindy Gay and David Wohl
Cindy Gay, MD, and David Wohl, MD, are featured in a new video about the COVID-19 Delta variant, vaccine efficacy and mRNA vaccine safety. Dr. Gay is an associate professor in the division of infectious diseases and leads vaccine clinical trials at UNC for the Moderna and Novavax vaccines. Dr. Wohl is professor of medicine in infectious diseases, who led the UNC-Chapel Hill vacc … Read more
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Wohl Pens Op-Ed to Encourage Vaccination against Delta Variant
Regardless of their rationales, unvaccinated people serve as kindling for the delta fire. David Wohl, MD, professor of infectious diseases, wrote an op-ed titled, “As cases rise, the US is throwing the unvaccinated a lifeline. Take it.” Read his article here.
Congratulations, Graduates!
June 30th marked the completion of the ACGME portion of ID fellowship for three ID Fellows, Arianne Morrison, Laura Rachal, and Min Kim; along with the completion of Daphne Henson-Villanueva’s ICHID Fellowship. To celebrate, the faculty hosted the first in-person event in quite some time- at the Sienna Hotel in Chapel Hill. Complete with delicious food, beverages, and good compan … Read more
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Wohl Contributed to Recent News Stories About COVID-19 Variants
NC Medical Schools, Health Systems Forming Network to Analyze Delta Variant The latest data shows the Delta variant represents about 13 percent of COVID-19 cases in North Carolina, but that data is about a month old, according to a CBS-17 news report published July 18, 2021. “It is inevitable this is going to be the dominant virus here very, very shortly,” said David Wohl, MD, pr … Read more
Study Compares Mortality Among People Entering HIV Care with General US Population
HIV-related mortality has decreased since 1996 due to improving treatments and evolving care guidelines, but the extent to which persons entering HIV care have a higher risk for death over the following years, compared with peers in the general population, has been unclear. Joseph Eron, MD, the Herman and Louise Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine and chief of the division … Read more
Study Finds Bamlanivimab Reduces Risk of COVID in Skilled Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities
Myron Cohen, MD, is the lead investigator of a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that shows bamlanivimab monotherapy reduced the incidence of infection in skilled nursing homes and assisted living facilities with high risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure. The randomized phase 3 clinical trial included 966 residents and staff participants fr … Read more
Browne Lab Earns NIH Grant to Study Cannabis Effects on HIV Reservoir
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the NIH, is funding the Browne lab in the UNC HIV Cure Center for a study on the effects of cannabis use on the reservoir of HIV that is dormant within patients but becomes activated and spreads when antiretroviral medications are ceased. This phenomenon is called HIV latency, and it’s considered the main barrier to eradicating the vi … Read more
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Wohl Says If People Are Waiting For a “Magical Moment” to Get Vaccinated, This Is It
The delta variant now accounts for half of the COVID-19 cases in many areas of the U.S., President Joe Biden said Tuesday, urging unvaccinated Americans to get the COVID-19 shots as the U.S. faces a dramatic rise in the “hypertransmissible” variant of the coronavirus. An NBC Today Health report asks experts about the effectiveness of current vaccines against the delta variant. Da … Read more