{"id":40058,"date":"2020-02-13T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=40058"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:50:38","slug":"weber-answers-questions-about-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/weber-answers-questions-about-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber Answers Questions About the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5944\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 277px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber-267x300.jpeg\" alt=\"David Weber, MD, MPH\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber-267x300.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber-301x338.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Weber, MD, MPH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/what-you-need-to-know-about-coronavirus\/\">UNC Health Talk<\/a> article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/infdis\/about\/faculty\/david-weber-md-mph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">David Weber, MD, MPH<\/a>, answers questions about the coronavirus, encourages the flu vaccine and recognizes respiratory etiquette. Weber is professor of medicine and pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He&#8217;s also medical director of hospital epidemiology and occupational health at UNC Medical Center, and an associate chief medical officer of UNC Health Care. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/what-you-need-to-know-about-coronavirus\/\">UNC Health Talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new UNC Health Talk article, David Weber, MD, MPH, answers questions about the coronavirus, encourages the flu vaccine and recognizes respiratory etiquette. Weber is professor of medicine and pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. 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