{"id":49324,"date":"2021-02-01T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=49324"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:05:59","slug":"deadliest-week-for-coronavirus-in-nc-rolls-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/deadliest-week-for-coronavirus-in-nc-rolls-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadliest Week for Coronavirus in NC Rolls On"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/deadliest-week-for-coronavirus-in-nc-rolls-on\/19497225\/\">WRAL.com<\/a> reports the number of coronavirus-related deaths in North Carolina continues to spike, and the state on Thursday surpassed 9,000 deaths during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/shannon-carson-md\/\">Shannon Carson<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine,\u00a0said virus-related deaths are the final metric to spike after infections and hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a week or two, they might need to be hospitalized,&#8221; Carson said, adding that someone might be moved to an intensive care unit after four or five days in the hospital. &#8220;Almost 30 percent of them, if they reach the intensive care unit, will not survive hospitalization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the news story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/deadliest-week-for-coronavirus-in-nc-rolls-on\/19497225\/\">WRAL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRAL.com reports the number of coronavirus-related deaths in North Carolina continues to spike, and the state on Thursday surpassed 9,000 deaths during the pandemic. Shannon Carson, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine,\u00a0said virus-related deaths are the final metric to spike after infections and hospitalizations. \u201cAfter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/deadliest-week-for-coronavirus-in-nc-rolls-on\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Deadliest Week for Coronavirus in NC Rolls On\">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":[630],"class_list":["post-49324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pulmonary","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>Deadliest Week for Coronavirus in NC Rolls On | 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\/deadliest-week-for-coronavirus-in-nc-rolls-on\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deadliest Week for Coronavirus in NC Rolls On | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WRAL.com reports the number of coronavirus-related deaths in North Carolina continues to spike, and the state on Thursday surpassed 9,000 deaths during the pandemic. 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