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Nashville officials examining how firearms make suicidal ideation more dangerous

Catherine Sweeney

June 29, 2023

As Metro Council officials wrapped a series meetings on protecting kids from gun violence at school on Wednesday, they took up another major firearm risk: suicide.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Gill Wright, guns, Metro Public Health Department

Nashville expands eligibility for the monkeypox vaccine with smaller dosing

Blake Farmer

September 13, 2022

Infectious disease experts recommend that gay and bi men, and other high-risk groups get the monkeypox vaccine. But the general population can avoid the vaccine for now because of how the virus is spread.

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Brenda Waybrant, Del Ray Zimmerman, Desirèe Arista, Gill Wright, Metro Public Health Department, monkeypox

With testing and vaccination at a trickle, a key Nashville site will close at the end of the month

Blake Farmer

April 20, 2022

Nashville leaders have decided to close down the city’s central COVID vaccination and testing site. They say demand has dried up, with just a trickle of cars coming through each day.

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID testing, Gill Wright, metro, Metro Public Health, vaccine

Nashville Moves Vaccination Site To Its Huge Convention Center In Hopes Of Getting More Doses

Blake Farmer

January 28, 2021

Music City Center

The Music City Center was never needed as a pandemic overflow hospital, as once feared. But it will be used as Nashville’s centralized mass vaccination site, in the hope that the city will eventually get enough COVID-19 vaccine to make use of its 2.1 million square feet of space.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: coronavirus vaccine, Gill Wright, Metro Public Health, Music City Center, Siloam

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