{"id":48943,"date":"2021-01-15T22:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=48943"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:05:10","slug":"need-for-covid-19-treatments-increases-as-nc-case-numbers-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/need-for-covid-19-treatments-increases-as-nc-case-numbers-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Need For COVID-19 Treatments Increases As NC Case Numbers Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5985\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 275px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-wohl-e1586534510632-265x300.jpeg\" alt=\"david-wohl-headshot\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-wohl-e1586534510632-265x300.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-wohl-e1586534510632-301x340.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-wohl-e1586534510632.jpeg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Wohl, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even with multiple vaccines, people will continue to get sick from COVID-19. Treatments are needed to keep infected people from getting worse and inundating our hospitals even more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-wohl-md\/\">David Wohl<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, told CBS17 that UNC is investigating a testing treatment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.briibio.com\/news-202002.php#news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brii Bioscience<\/a>, based in Durham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is to take these compounds, give them to people as soon as they\u2019re diagnosed with COVID-19, get it circulating in their system within minutes and it can neutralize the virus,\u201d Wohl said in a news report.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/UNC is testing a treatment from Brii Bioscience, based in Durham.  \u201cThe idea is to take these compounds, give them to people as soon as they\u2019re diagnosed with COVID-19, get it circulating in their system within minutes and it can neutralize the virus,\u201d explained Wohl.\">CBS17 news story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with multiple vaccines, people will continue to get sick from COVID-19. Treatments are needed to keep infected people from getting worse and inundating our hospitals even more. David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, told CBS17 that UNC is investigating a testing treatment from Brii Bioscience, based in Durham. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/need-for-covid-19-treatments-increases-as-nc-case-numbers-soar\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Need For COVID-19 Treatments Increases As NC Case Numbers Soar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":5985,"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":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-48943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Need For COVID-19 Treatments Increases As NC Case Numbers Soar | 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\/need-for-covid-19-treatments-increases-as-nc-case-numbers-soar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Need For COVID-19 Treatments Increases As NC Case Numbers Soar | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even with multiple vaccines, people will continue to get sick from COVID-19. 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