Flulapalooza

The VUMC hot air ballon. (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) Rebecca Cole-Nicholson, a licensed practical nurse working in outpatient care at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, was the winner of a hot air balloon ride given away in a drawing following Flulapalooza, last month’s mass vaccination drill and simultaneous… Read More

On Oct. 12, Vanderbilt University more than doubled the current world record for the total number of vaccinations given in an eight-hour period. From 6:50 a.m. until 2:50 p.m., 12,647 university and medical center faculty, staff and students received free influenza vaccinations at Flulapalooza, a mass vaccination drill and simultaneous attempt to break the current Guinness world record. By the time the event ended around 7 p.m., more than 14,000 total vaccinations had been dispensed. Read More