{"id":44041,"date":"2020-07-11T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=44041"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:57:08","slug":"expecting-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/expecting-the-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Expecting the Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30879\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/04\/MikeCohenNAMheadshotsJCL201-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"MikeCohenNAMheadshotsJCL201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"discreet\">Myron Cohen, MD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/myron-cohen-md\/\"><strong>Myron Cohen<\/strong><\/a>, MD, and several colleagues in the division of infectious diseases and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, were featured in this in-depth &#8220;Time and Tenacity&#8221; Endeavors magazine article on HIV and COVID-19 research.<\/p>\n<p>Since HIV became a pandemic, more than 75 million people have been infected with the virus and about 32 million have died from AIDS, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/gho\/hiv\/en\/\">World Health Organization<\/a>. Thirty-eight million people are still infected worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Today, HIV researchers have another nasty virus to contend with: SARS-CoV-2. To date,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/world\/coronavirus-maps.html\">nearly 12 million people<\/a>\u00a0have been diagnosed with COVID-19, half a million people have died worldwide, and one-quarter of those deaths have been in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But there is much hope \u2014 in part, thanks to Carolina\u2019s prowess in the field of HIV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually every HIV expert on this campus has been assigned or repurposed, in one way or another, to work on COVID-19,\u201d Cohen says, \u201cbecause they are able to deal with emerging pathogens after dealing with HIV for 30 to 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story at <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/endeavors.unc.edu\/expecting-the-unexpected\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endeavors.unc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myron Cohen, MD, and several colleagues in the division of infectious diseases and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, were featured in this in-depth &#8220;Time and Tenacity&#8221; Endeavors magazine article on HIV and COVID-19 research. 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