UNC Department of Medicine fellow Dr. Sasha Deutsch-Link speaks with 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell on Monday, June 27. She details a new study she co-authored examining how alcohol-associated liver disease and mortality rates not only are on the rise, but accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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