{"id":50524,"date":"2021-04-01T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=50524"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:08:02","slug":"covid-or-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/covid-or-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID or Allergies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32414\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 306px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"onyi-iweala\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-1010x1024.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-768x779.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-1515x1536.jpg 1515w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-2019x2048.jpg 2019w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-600x608.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/05\/Dr-Iweala_Onyi_1695-twp-e1565643510266-301x305.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Onyinye Iweala, MD, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the pollen count rises in North Carolina, some allergy symptoms have people questioning if they are experiencing COVID-19.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/onyinye-iweala-md-phd\/\"> Onyinye Iweala<\/a>, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the division of rheumatology, allergy and immunology, explained how people can decipher beween the two, in an ABC-11 news report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is some confusion now that environmental allergy season is picking up,&#8221; said Iweala. &#8220;One of the biggest things people can use to tell apart is symptoms that could go either one would be itch. 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