{"id":48596,"date":"2020-12-03T19:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=48596"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:04:02","slug":"dr-myron-cohen-this-is-going-to-be-a-difficult-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/dr-myron-cohen-this-is-going-to-be-a-difficult-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen Says This Will Be a Difficult Winter"},"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\">Myron Cohen, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/pfizer-vaccine-covid-19-coronavirus-nc-uk\/8448244\/\">WTVD-11 News<\/a> reports how the UK&#8217;s approval of the Pfizer vaccine could benefit North Carolina and asks who will get the vaccine first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/myron-cohen-md\/\">Myron Cohen<\/a>, MD, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the division of infectious diseases, tells WTVD-11 that the coming winter will be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think everybody is forewarning that the spike increase in cases that we see right now became inevitable over fall, both for climate reasons and for fatigue reasons,&#8221; Cohen said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the news report <a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/pfizer-vaccine-covid-19-coronavirus-nc-uk\/8448244\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTVD-11 News reports how the UK&#8217;s approval of the Pfizer vaccine could benefit North Carolina and asks who will get the vaccine first. 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