VUMC sources quoted at Washington Post, NPR, New York Times, 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: Consumer Reports, The New York Times,  The New York Post, USA Today, Yahoo! News, NBC News via Reuters, Prevention and Bloomberg.

The Washington Post published a piece a piece, which ran at the top of the newspaper’s web site, about the use of monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID that quotes Karen Bloch, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine.

NPR’s health news blog “Shots” picked up a story from WPLN Nashville Public Radio about the surge in COVID patients in Tennessee hospitals. The piece quotes Todd Rice, MD, associate professor of Medicine.

A Medpage Today end-of-year perspective piece on COVID quotes David Aronoff, MD, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases.

Scripps reporter Kai Beech interviewed Stephen Patrick, MD, director of the Center for Child Health Policy, for a story about the increase of mothers struggling with addiction during the pandemic. 

NBC’s Sunday Night Football featured photos of VUMC employees in their Tennessee Titans gear and NFL Chief Medical Officer Allen Sills, MD, professor of Neurological Surgery, being vaccinated.