The Tennessee National Guard conducted a statewide flyover Tuesday, May 12, to salute medical professionals who are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) are leading a nationwide study to determine the rate of novel coronavirus infection in U.S. children and their families.

“I was really excited to have the opportunity to do something for those who had done so much for me."

As our region begins to reopen businesses, we are entering a new phase of the pandemic. COVID-19 is still with us and remains a major public health challenge. But responsibility is shifting to all of us — as individuals and as institutions — to find new ways to live and work while keeping ourselves, and each other, safe.

Metro Nashville Vice Mayor Jim Shulman and Dena McCormick, vice president of Vanderbilt Health Purchasing Collaborative, pose for a photo after picking up boxes containing thousands of masks that were donated to VUMC by the Ferrell McDaniel Company.

“If his family had been there, they would have wanted to hold and touch his hand and rub his head, so that’s what I did"

“A bunch of us came from different ICU environments. We became a tight team, a great team, that came together very quickly.”