{"id":54694,"date":"2021-08-19T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=54694"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:13:18","slug":"when-could-we-see-delta-peak-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/when-could-we-see-delta-peak-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"When Could We See Delta Peak in North Carolina?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54695\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant-300x166.png\" alt=\"david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant-600x333.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant-301x167.png 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/david-wohl-cbs-17-delta-variant.png 866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Wohl, MD (Credit: CBS-17)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The numbers of new COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions keep climbing. That raises a critical question \u2014 when will they finally peak? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/news\/north-carolina-news\/when-could-we-see-delta-peak-in-north-carolina\/\">CBS-17<\/a> interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-wohl-md\/\">David Wohl<\/a>, MD, to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the current circumstances, unless there was a dramatic change, we\u2019re talking about a peak in late October, early November,\u201d said Wohl, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important for people to know that it\u2019s not just us watching the skies for a change in the weather. We can predict pretty reasonably what might happen based on what we\u2019ve seen before and the data we have available that shows us how the virus is spreading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wohl also said he expects the numbers to \u201cstart approaching what we saw during the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/news\/north-carolina-news\/when-could-we-see-delta-peak-in-north-carolina\/\">Watch or read the CBS-17 story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers of new COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions keep climbing. That raises a critical question \u2014 when will they finally peak? CBS-17 interviewed David Wohl, MD, to learn more. \u201cUnder the current circumstances, unless there was a dramatic change, we\u2019re talking about a peak in late October, early November,\u201d said Wohl, professor of medicine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/when-could-we-see-delta-peak-in-north-carolina\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about When Could We See Delta Peak in North Carolina?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":54695,"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-54694","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>When Could We See Delta Peak in North Carolina? | 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\/when-could-we-see-delta-peak-in-north-carolina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When Could We See Delta Peak in North Carolina? | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The numbers of new COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions keep climbing. 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