H1N1 Reaches America (2009) w/ James Hamblin

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It’s March 27th. This day in 2009, the US is responding to the outbreak of the H1N1 flu, which would soon be a global pandemic.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Dr James Hamblin of the Yale School of Public Health to discuss the fairly strategic and effective response to that pandemic — and the lessons we failed to learn heading into future outbreaks.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day an esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	This day, late March 2009, H1N1 is spreading throughout the United States, particularly in California and Texas at first.
0:19.0	It was more commonly known as the swine flu and had come to US shores most likely through Mexico
0:25.4	but over the course of March and April it would spread and spread initially caught
0:29.5	an outbreak then being designated a public health emergency by the W. H.emic would rage throughout the summer and
0:44.4	then begin to taper off in the fall just about a year after the initial
0:47.9	designation it was declared over. How many people died? It's a little hard to figure out, but there's an official number of about 20,000.
0:56.1	There are estimates that maybe it's closer to a quarter of a million. Not to make this about COVID,
1:01.3	but of course we are a few years into COVID there are several
1:04.5	million people dead so there are lots of parallels and lots of things to think about
1:09.7	with the H1N1 story and a conversation about the lessons that we learned and
1:13.6	especially the ones that we seem to have not learned from 2009. So here to
1:18.6	discuss as always are Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of
1:22.4	Wellesley. Hello there.
1:24.0	Hello Jody.
1:25.0	Hey there.
1:26.0	And our special guest for this episode back on the show is Dr. James Hamblin, lecturer at the Yale
1:30.8	School of Public Health, Long- longtime health writer, his books are clean
1:34.4	and if our bodies could talk.
1:36.3	Jim, thank you for coming back on the show.
1:39.2	Thank you for having me back to discuss wine flu once again.
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