VUMC sources quoted in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, 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: Healthline, CNN, Kaiser Health News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, ABC News, and Bloomberg.

Keipp Talbot, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine, was quoted in New York Times and Bloomberg pieces about which groups of people should get COVID vaccines next.

The Wall Street Journal reporter Melanie Evans interviewed Wes Ely, MD, professor of Medicine, Allergy/Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, for a story about COVID patients being treated in overcrowded ICUs. 

Elemental reporter Rob Britt interviewed David Aronoff, MD, director, Division of Infectious Diseases, for a blog about when we can stop wearing masks.

Medscape interviewed Corey Slovis, MD, professor of Emergency Medicine, for a story about fall’s COVID resurgence.

Fox NFL Sunday highlighted the family of one of VUMC’s retinoblastoma patients, Carly Faith, who was treated by Anthony Daniels, MD, assistant professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Cancer Biology, and Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt Eye Institute and Debra Friedman, MD, director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and E. Bronson Ingram Chair in Pediatric Oncology. Her father is Demario Davis, linebacker with New Orleans Saints.