AMA Announces CPT Update for Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

With more than 225,000 children infected with COVID-19 nationwide, pediatric experts representing the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Children's Hospital Association will testify at "Putting Kids First: Addressing COVID-19's Impacts On Children" this week.

A technology developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has led to the discovery of an "ultra-potent" monoclonal antibody against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, including the delta variant.

86 percent of nursing homes and 77 percent of assisted living providers said their workforce situation has gotten worse over the last three months.
58 percent of nursing homes limiting new admissions due to shortages.

Tennessee now has the dubious distinction of confirming the most per capita COVID cases nationwide.

New provisional codes created for new Pfizer vaccine formulation and booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer

The Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) announces that chief medical officers and chief nursing officers from hospitals across the state have issued an open letter to Tennessee residents urging vaccination and mask wearing in public spaces. The list of CMOs and CNOs is included in the attachment.

The first episode of the second season of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's original podcast series, Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action, tackles bold questions and issues pushed to the surface by COVID-19.

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists and new variants emerge, the Nashville Health Care Council Board of Directors today issued a statement urging every person to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and it invited top executives of health care companies nationwide to sign on to the statement.

Vanderbilt University Hospital treated 39 pregnant patients hospitalized with active COVID-19 infections in August, 10 of whom were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).

The American Medical Association (AMA), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) strongly oppose the ordering, prescribing, or dispensing of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial.

Hospitalizations are approaching our daily hospitalizations peak from early 2021 (3,314).

The first episode of the second season of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's original podcast series, Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action, tackles bold questions and issues pushed to the surface by COVID-19.

CDC Approved Recommendations for Third Dose Booster for Moderately and Severely Immunocompromised Individuals

With COVID case counts rising across the state ... and, to be fair, the country ... the silence coming from Governor Bill Lee's office and that of the Tennessee Department of Health is deafening.

The Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) fully supports the vaccination of Tennesseans against the COVID-19 virus.