River Cities Reader Podcast
June 1, 2024 Bermas & McGreevy Revisit H1N1 from 2009, Wikileaks and More
On the broadcast for the June 1, 2024 TNT Video (podbean.com), Bermas travels back in time with Todd McGreevy to October 15, 2009, to revisit the confirmed first media-pandemic rodeo, the H1N1 flu virus, as reported by then-Managing Editor Jeff Ignatius. If reading Ignatius’s piece gives you a sense of déjà vu, you’re not the only one: Bermas thought he had the scoop back then when he read aloud CDC preparation docs posted at Wiki Leaks back then, only to learn the Reader had beaten him by a month earlier. The two also discuss a National Public Radio broadcast about H1N1 and raw milk https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251647612/a-bird-flu-outbreak-among-dairy-cows-sparks-new-warnings-about-unpasteurized-mil.