VUMC sources quoted by New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, 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, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Prevention, PolitiFact , Politico, Healthline, Westwood One, The Hill, and CBS San Francisco.

Kathryn Edwards, MD, Sarah H. Sell and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pediatrics, was quoted by NPR in a story about possible menstruation changes as a side effect of COVID vaccines.

NBC News reporter Elizabeth Chuck interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about vaccinated parents who are worried they will catch and transmit COVID to children who are too young to get the vaccine.

After VUMC announced it was postponing some elective surgeries due to an influx of new COVID patients, many news outlets covered the story, among them WPLN Nashville Public Radio, WZTV Fox 17 News, WTVF News Channel 5, and Nashville Scene. Seth Karp, MD, chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences, was quoted in some of the stories.

Reuters Health senior editor Marilynn Larkin interviewed Sean Donahue, MD, PhD, chief of the Pediatric Ophthalmology Service, for a story about a new study on botulinum toxin injection to treat strabismus.