{"id":46734,"date":"2020-09-26T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T16:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=46734"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:00:09","slug":"boyce-leads-longitudinal-covid-19-study-in-chatham-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/boyce-leads-longitudinal-covid-19-study-in-chatham-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyce Leads Longitudinal COVID-19 Study in Chatham County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ross Boyce<\/strong><\/a>, MD, MSc, assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases,\u00a0is currently leading a longitudinal study in Chatham County to understand how and why SARS-CoV-2 is spreading through this population \u2014 data that are direly needed since most of the current data rely on \u201cimperfect disease markers,\u201d or information about the disease that\u2019s easier to access but may not tell the whole story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think COVID has been largely associated with urban centers due to issues of population density and crowding,\u201d said Boyce<\/a><\/strong> in an Endeavors<\/a><\/strong> article. \u201cBut I think some of those same risk factors are also at play in rural communities \u2014 and that shouldn\u2019t be ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more from the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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