2021-22 college football bowl predictions: How the postseason should break down

The college football season is almost here. Our preseason bowl projections forecast the playoff field and the rest of the postseason lineup.       GANNETT Syndication Service

Take a peek inside this historic Franklin home

The character of the Watson-Pointer home on Third Avenue South in downtown Franklin has been preserved        GANNETT Syndication Service

Delta Variant: What We Know About the Science

Delta is currently the predominant strain of the virus in the United States. The Delta variant causes more infections and spreads faster than early forms SARS-CoV-2. 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Family pediatricians should be first line of defense for COVID concerns

  by Jessica Pasley As the more contagious delta variant of COVID-19 spreads, impacting children, pediatricians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt say there are steps parents...

Asia-Pacific markets rise; Hong Kong’s Hang Seng looks to bounce from bear territory

Heavy losses last week left Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index more than 20% lower from its mid-February high. International: Top News And Analysis

Biden says U.S. has ‘long way to go and a lot could still go wrong’ in Afghanistan evacuation

The Biden administration is facing criticism of its handling of the overall U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. U.S. News

Your money: Child tax credit expanded only for 2021

Understanding passed and proposed tax changes to plan        GANNETT Syndication Service

COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shot

People who have had 2 shots of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines may need to start receiving a COVID-19 booster shot 8 months after their second dose. 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Certain drug exposures correlate with reduced COVID severity: study

  by Paul Govern Analyzing electronic health records (EHR) of 9,748 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, Cosmin Bejan, PhD, Elizabeth Phillips, MD, and colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center asked...

COVID-19 antibody ‘cocktail’ discovered at VUMC protects chronically ill

by Bill Snyder A monoclonal antibody cocktail against the COVID-19 virus discovered at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and developed by AstraZeneca reduced the risk of symptoms in a study...