For the first time in more than a year, UNC Health reported zero patients in the COVID unit at UNC Medical Center. It was just a 36-hour span this month but it was momentous considering what the unit looked like at the start of the year.
Ashley Henderson, MD, associate professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, was interviewed in the WTVD-11 news report.
“I think people can be more optimistic,” Henderson said. “They shouldn’t be scared anymore. We are still seeing people dying from COVID but fortunately it’s much better, and our numbers are much lower.”
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