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Shows the windowed wall of an ICU room containing a COVID patient. You can only see the patient's feet.

‘Breakthrough finding’ points to why certain COVID patients die

November 15, 2020 by Kaiser Health News 1 Comment

‘Breakthrough finding’ points to why certain COVID patients die - North Carolina Health News

Information from new studies point to the role of interferons, substances made by our bodies that play a key role in the immune response to disease.

By Liz Szabo Kaiser Health News Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about COVID-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency department in February. But there’s one question she still can’t answer: What makes some patients so much sicker than others? Advancing age and underlying medical problems explain only part […]

two people in full infection control gear carry a very sick looking person on a stretcher into a tent

UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers Aim to Revolutionize Ebola Care in West Africa

August 16, 2018 by Jared Weber

UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers Aim to Revolutionize Ebola Care in West Africa - North Carolina Health News

When hot spots of Ebola virus pop up occasionally in Africa, researchers from North Carolina are making their way there to help out, and find ways to prevent further disease.

By Jared Weber In the thick of the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization dispatched UNC-Chapel Hill physician Billy Fischer to provide medical care in Guinea. Fischer had been in Geneva, Switzerland, to work on a different WHO project, when he received the call. Though he had been enthusiastic about […]

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