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NashVillager Podcast: Where public opinion and public health collide

Nina Cardona

September 23, 2024

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Why didn’t the pandemic produce a modern-day figure like Typhoid Mary? Plus the local news for September 23, 2024.

Filed Under: Health Care, History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID, pandemic

How three Tennessee principals plan to tackle this school year’s challenges

Alexis Marshall

July 30, 2024

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While families prepare to send their children back to school, many educators are already back in their buildings. And even though large-scale pandemic disruptions are in the rearview, principals say some COVID-related trends continue to cause challenges.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Education, mental health, Metro Nashville Public Schools, pandemic

NashVillager Podcast: National medical leaders in Nashville

Nina Cardona

May 31, 2024

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What is the connection between Nashville and some of America’s most important voices in understanding disease? Plus your local newscast for May 31, 2024.

Filed Under: Health Care, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: medical doctors, pandemic

Alcohol use disorder has surged in Tennessee. Patients and doctors point to the pandemic.

Catherine Sweeney

May 26, 2024

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By every metric, alcohol use began surging in the pandemic and hasn’t stopped.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: addiction, alcohol use disorder, COVID-19, Cumberland Heights, opioid use disorder, pandemic, recovery, Vanderbilt Medical Center

From pandemic to protests, the Class of 2024 has been through a lot

Tovia Smith, NPR

May 23, 2024

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Pomp and circumstance again fall victim to circumstance for some students in the graduating class of 2024, as protests over the war in Gaza threaten to disrupt commencement ceremonies.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID, COVID-19, graduation, pandemic, Tullahoma

‘Publishing and standing up for yourself’: How Ann Patchett mentored Nashville debut author Lindsay Lynch

Cynthia Abrams

July 31, 2023

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Ann Patchett isn’t just an award-winning author — she’s also the owner of Parnassus Books. There, she has mentored booksellers who double as emerging writers, like Lindsay Lynch.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Ann Patchett, Author, book buyer, book tour, books, booksellers, Do Tell, Hollywood, interview, Lindsay Lynch, Michigan, Nashville authors, National Humanities Medal, Novel, Novelist, pandemic, Parnassus, Parnassus Books, Tom Lake

Revisiting long COVID in Middle Tennessee

Elizabeth Burton

July 6, 2023

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Many people, media outlets and even major health organizations have deemed the COVID-19 pandemic a thing of the past. But for those living with Long Covid, that’s far from true.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: COVID long-haulers, COVID-19, pandemic, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Tennessee test scores dropped in the Nation’s Report Card. A Metro math teacher shares what that looks like in his classroom.

Alexis Marshall

November 2, 2022

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Jeremiah Wooten teaches eighth grade math at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Antioch. Earlier this year, some of his students participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: COVID-19, disparities, Education, K-12, Metro Nashville Public Schools, pandemic

As Nashville gets down to its last federal COVID money, homelessness and workforce development are the city’s top priorities

Ambriehl Crutchfield

August 31, 2022

Metro Councilmember Courtney Johnston

Nashville just has over $79 million of federal COVID-19 funds left to spend. 

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID, COVID-19, pandemic

Checking in with Middle Tennesseans about the COVID-19 pandemic

Rose Gilbert

April 27, 2022

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The pandemic has been going on for more than two years so how are Middle Tennesseans now approaching pandemic safety? 

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: COVID, COVID testing, COVID-19, pandemic

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