VUMC sources quoted by The New York Times, ABC News, Nature, more

William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, continues to be one of the most in-demand sources about COVID-19, influenza and other subjects in the news. Among the news organizations he has spoken with recently: The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, Yahoo! Life, CNBC, CNN and Scripps Media.

Kathryn Edwards, MD, Sarah H. Sell and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pediatrics, was quoted in stories in The New York Times (about the CDC’s decision not to investigate mild COVID infections in vaccinated Americans) and Nature about the challenges of communicating vaccine safety information to the public.

Michael DeBaun, MD, professor of Pediatrics, was quoted in a New York Times piece about three sisters with sickle cell disease who had strokes.

Healthline reporter Rajiv Bahl interviewed Mona Mashayekhi, MD, PhD, clinical instructor/post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, for a story about gestational diabetes.