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GoHeels Exclusive: Walger on the Front Lines in Massachusetts

By Pat James, GoHeels.com

From the moment the coronavirus pandemic started sweeping across the country in March, it's brought back memories for some of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.

That's certainly been the case for former North Carolina men's lacrosse player Mike Walger, who completed his bachelor's degree in 1993 and then enrolled in the UNC School of Medicine. But not even that crisis, Walger says, was quite like this one.

"This is hitting much closer to home in terms of having to have everyone stay at home and be safe and quarantine and those types of things," said Walger, an emergency medicine specialist at North Shore Medical Center's Salem Hospital (NSMCSH) in Salem, Massachusetts.