VUMC sources quoted by New York Times, Washington Post, Healthline, others

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: NBC News, The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, Insider, The Independent, Politifact, Healthline, CNBC, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Reuters.

Keipp Talbot, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine, was quoted in a piece on WPLN Nashville Public Radio about people getting COVID despite receiving a vaccine.

Healthline reporter Rajiv Bahl interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about children under 12 and COVID vaccines.

A Vox piece on changes in medical diagnosis that remove different standards for different races mentions that Vanderbilt is one of the institutions that has eliminated the race variable in the eGFR kidney function test.