Monthly Archives: May 2020

When you hear calls to honor the front-line workers dealing with the pandemic — here are the faces of some of the people they’re talking about. Continue reading →

The mental health of children and adolescents appears to be suffering as weeks of safer-at-home orders and other social distancing protocols continue to be enforced. Continue reading →

During the first few weeks of Tennessee’s statewide Stay-At-Home order, physicians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital noticed an interesting pattern — a higher volume of pediatric traumas, including ATV accidents, dirt bike accidents and pellet … Continue reading →

Lung disease experts at VUMC discovered that children have lower levels of an enzyme the COVID-19 virus needs to invade airway epithelial cells in the lung. Continue reading →

As Vanderbilt continues to care for COVID-19 patients, other care, including clinic visits and elective surgeries, begin again. Continue reading →

Among the routine ABCs of water safety — Adult supervision, Barriers/boating safety and Classes, experts stress that social distancing remains a high priority. Continue reading →

VUMC’s research enterprise operations continue to ramp up their gradual first-step expansion of research, including pending approvals for graduate student return to labs. Next steps for progression to Phase 2 will be reassessed on May 29. Continue reading →

The VUMC COVID-19 website is the single source of truth for all developing information. Please bookmark the site and refer to it several times a day. Continue reading →