VUMC sources quoted by ABC News, Voice of America, People magazine, 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: Health, CNN, CBS News, Insider, Newsweek, Voice of America, ABC News, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and Medpage Today.

Sophie Katz, MD, assistant professor of Pediatrics, was quoted in an ABC News story about cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). She also spoke to several local news outlets about the cases of the syndrome at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, is quoted in an ABC News story about religious exemptions to vaccine mandates.

People magazine reporter Wendy Kantor interviewed Lindsey McKernan, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, for a story about signs of anxiety or depression.