VUMC sources quoted by ABC News, NBC News, The Atlantic, 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: ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune,  Radio Health Journal and Healthline.

NBC News interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for stories about second COVID-19 vaccine doses - the challenges of getting people to return for these required shots. Creech also spoke to NBC News for a story about the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Tina Hartert, MD, MPH, vice president for Translational Science and professor of Medicine, is quoted in The Atlantic in a story headlined, “Why kids might be key to reaching herd immunity.”

Wesley Self, MD, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, was quoted in an Associated Press story about the establishment of clinics to care for COVID “long-haulers,” those who have had the disease for an extended time.

A Medical News Today story about the effects of COVID on the brain quotes Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI, professor of Anesthesiology.

Rebecca Swan, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Residency Program, spoke to KEYE-TV (CBS) in Austin, Texas, as well as local Nashville television news reporters, about her memories of former VUMC resident Katherine Lindley Dodson, MD, who was killed last week in her office in Austin.