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Onyinye Iweala, MD, PhD

As the pollen count rises in North Carolina, some allergy symptoms have people questioning if they are experiencing COVID-19.  Onyinye Iweala, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the division of rheumatology, allergy and immunology, explained how people can decipher beween the two, in an ABC-11 news report.

“There is some confusion now that environmental allergy season is picking up,” said Iweala. “One of the biggest things people can use to tell apart is symptoms that could go either one would be itch. People who have environmental allergy tend to itch a lot — itchy nose, itchy ears, itchy mouth and throat.”

Watch the ABC-11 news story.