{"id":3423,"date":"2020-03-19T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/marsicolunginstitute\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:58:27","slug":"tarran-consulted-for-scientific-american-article-about-smoking-vaping-in-the-context-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/marsicolunginstitute\/tarran-consulted-for-scientific-american-article-about-smoking-vaping-in-the-context-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickles &amp; Tarran Consulted for Articles About Smoking\/Vaping in the Context of Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/marsicolunginstitute\/directory\/raymond-c-pickles-phd\/\">Ray Pickles, PhD<\/a>, and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2a6496\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/marsicolunginstitute\/directory\/robert-tarran-phd\/\">Robert Tarran, PhD<\/a>, have both been consulted for separate articles about the possibility that smoking and vaping could increase vulnerabilities to the coronavirus. Dr. Pickles was consulted by <em>Neoscope<\/em> for an article entitled &#8220;Experts: Vaping Could Make Coronavirus Infection More Severe,&#8221; which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/experts-vaping-could-make-coronavirus-infection-more-severe\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Scientific American<\/em> consulted Dr. Tarran for their article, \u201cSmoking or Vaping May Increase the Risk of a Severe Coronavirus Infection,\u201d which can be found <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/smoking-or-vaping-may-increase-the-risk-of-a-severe-coronavirus-infection1\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Pickles, PhD, and\u00a0Robert Tarran, PhD, have both been consulted for separate articles about the possibility that smoking and vaping could increase vulnerabilities to the coronavirus. 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