{"id":48600,"date":"2020-12-11T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T01:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=48600"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:04:02","slug":"inside-the-battleground-the-frontline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/inside-the-battleground-the-frontline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Battleground: The Frontline of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7320\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 254px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Shannon-Carson-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"shannon-carson\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Shannon-Carson-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Shannon-Carson-301x370.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Shannon-Carson.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Shannon Carson, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The view of the devastation of COVID-19 from the inside is far different than from the outside, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/inside-the-battleground-the-frontline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-the-us\/\">CBS17 (NewsNation)<\/a> reports. In a political climate consumed by masks and relief money, a look behind the intensive care curtain finds unprecedented work and camaraderie, impossible sadness and even a little bit of hope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/shannon-carson-md\/\">Shannon Carson<\/a>, MD, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine, talked with NewsNation about the number of ICU patients that has doubled in recent weeks at UNC Medical Center and the fact that the acuity of illness of those patients has gone up considerably.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/inside-the-battleground-the-frontline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-the-us\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The view of the devastation of COVID-19 from the inside is far different than from the outside, CBS17 (NewsNation) reports. In a political climate consumed by masks and relief money, a look behind the intensive care curtain finds unprecedented work and camaraderie, impossible sadness and even a little bit of hope. Shannon Carson, MD, chief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/inside-the-battleground-the-frontline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-the-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside the Battleground: The Frontline of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":7320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,102],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-48600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pulmonary","tag-629","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inside the Battleground: The Frontline of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the US | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/inside-the-battleground-the-frontline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-the-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside the Battleground: The Frontline of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the US | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The view of the devastation of COVID-19 from the inside is far different than from the outside, CBS17 (NewsNation) reports. 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