{"id":1064,"date":"2021-03-09T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2021-07-22T06:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:58:50","slug":"covid-19-our-work-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/covid-19-our-work-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Our Work in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our work in COVID-19 research has been featured in multiple news reports and interviews with Dr. Dirk Dittmer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"152\">2021, July 20: $15 million NC project launching soon to track COVID-19 variants by Bridget Chapman with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/15-million-nc-project-launching-soon-to-track-covid-19-variants\/\">CBS17<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"152\">2021, July 19: \u00a0The sequencing study was also picked up by DeJuan Hoggard with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/nc-covid-19-cases-back-to-school-vaccine\/10896830\/\">ABC.<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"152\">2021, Feb 9: Interview with Maggie Newland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/unc-professor-studying-virus-mutations-says-vaccine-boosters-may-be-needed\/\">CBS 17<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-title\"><em>UNC professor studying virus\u2019 mutations says vaccine boosters may be needed<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"200\">2021, Jan 27: UNC Health Talk with Radhika Talwani Bombard<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"258\">2021, Jan 23: Interview with <a class=\"sc-bwCtUz juAje\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/duke-virologist-we-don-t-need-to-panic-over-new-coronavirus-variants\/19486759\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/duke-virologist-we-don-t-need-to-panic-over-new-coronavirus-variants\/19486759\/\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\">WRAL<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"258\">2021, Jan 20: Interview with Judith Retana, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/digital-stories\/covid-19-variant-found-by-nc-lab-could-mean-trouble-for-health-systems\/\">CBS 17<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"297\">2020, Dec 22: Interview with <a class=\"sc-bwCtUz juAje\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/unc-professor-outlines-whats-known-about-new-covid-19-strain-hitting-uk\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/unc-professor-outlines-whats-known-about-new-covid-19-strain-hitting-uk\/\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\">CBS 17<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"338\">2020, Dec 11: Interview with the <a class=\"sc-bwCtUz juAje\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/decoding-an-outbreak-how-covid-19-ripped-through-the-baltimore-ravens-11607695552?st=gmonrc85wxv6aki&amp;reflink=article_email_share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/decoding-an-outbreak-how-covid-19-ripped-through-the-baltimore-ravens-11607695552?st=gmonrc85wxv6aki&amp;reflink=article_email_share\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\">WSJ<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"378\">2020, Nov 6: Interview with Rick Martinez, WPTF radio<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"378\">2020, Nov 5: Interview with Zachery Eanes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/article246986637.html\">News, and Observer<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"435\">2020, Nov 2: Interview with CBS 17 (Zak Dahlheimer)<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"491\">2020, Oct 29: Interview with WCHL\/Chapelboro (Elle)<\/li>\n<li>2020, Oct 27: Interview with Debra Morgan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/unc-researchers-using-dna-to-track-spread-of-coronavirus\/19357316\/\">WRAL News<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"546\">2020, Oct 27: Interview with Maggie Newland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/unc-researchers-using-covid-19-generic-sequences-to-track-where-it-comes-from\/\">CBS 17<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"601\">2020, Oct 20: UNC <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2020\/10\/tracking-the-sars-cov-2-virus-with-genome-sequencing\/\">Press Release<\/a> on Cell Reports paper\n<ul>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"601\"><em>Tracking the SARS-CoV-2 Virus with Genome Sequencing<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"693\">2020, July 22: <a class=\"sc-bwCtUz juAje\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z9oV6jEdI4I&amp;feature=emb_logo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z9oV6jEdI4I&amp;feature=emb_logo\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\">UNC HealthMedia on You Tube<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"738\">2020, July 8: <a class=\"sc-bwCtUz juAje\" title=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ky\/lexington\/news\/2020\/07\/10\/how-effective-are-cloth-masks-againt-coronavirus-#\" href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ky\/lexington\/news\/2020\/07\/10\/how-effective-are-cloth-masks-againt-coronavirus-#\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Spectrum News 1<\/a>: Experiment with Masks in Lab<\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"815\">2020, June 29: Interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/APlWJ_wU5SgGvNcpgosR9yA\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"864\">2020, April 5: <a class=\"sc-bwCtUz juAje\" title=\"https:\/\/thermofisher.mediaroom.com\/2020-03-25-Italian-Researchers-Identify-New-SARS-CoV-2-Gene-Variants-That-Provide-Clues-to-Coronaviruss-Epidemiology?_lrsc=b79383a1-87b7-4bd1-8015-16f068047d2f&amp;cid=LinkedInElevate&amp;utm_source=elevate-linkedin&amp;utm_medium=elevate&amp;src=linkedin-elevate\" 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