From clinicians to first responders, respiratory therapists, housekeepers, and food service workers, a wide range of North Carolina’s healthcare workers have enrolled in a new online research community to share the perspectives and problems faced by those on the COVID-19 pandemic front lines and to help find solutions.
The Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes (HERO) Registry unites a diverse group of essential workers across North Carolina and around the country in an online community to facilitate rapid-cycle research, including an ongoing randomized clinical trial to investigate if hydroxychloroquine (brand name Plaquenil®) can protect healthy, at-risk workers from COVID-19.
Ross Boyce, MD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Medicine in the division of infectious diseases is the UNC-Chapel Hill site leader.