Swine flu on You Tube

May 7th, 2009

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My friend Dyana Pari Nafisi has been making a series of videos on You tube since the beginning of the swine flu outbreak. You can click here to see them or subscribe, or click here to go directly to the ones in which she interviewed me.

Also: My friend Patrice Wynne sent along the following quote from Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations:

“I think the whole world should be saying, ‘Gracias, amigos,’ to the Mexicans for the tremendous sacrifice they have made. They may have stopped what would otherwise have been a serious pandemic.”

Also: My friend Tapen Sinha, and his coauthor Bradly Condon, wrote a paper called “Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold: Lessons from the 2009 Influenza Epidemic.” Click here to download it.

Labels: Mexico City, You Tube, swine flu

  1. 3 Responses to “Swine flu on You Tube”

  2. By Nancy on May 7, 2009

    David, Thank you for this. I was shocked to read The Chronicle of a Pandemic foretold. Who would believe that Mexico’s actions might make things worse in the future?

  3. By Bob Mrotek on May 7, 2009

    I think that Laurie Garrett is right. I view the preventive actions here as totally remarkable. I don’t see how it could have been done better anywhere else.

  4. By Avlis on May 8, 2009

    Just to put the quantity of people with the flu in perspective, check this site to judge this flu outbreak in comparison with the annual flu season: http://www.google.org/flutrends/intl/en_mx/

    In the whole world as of the morning of May 8 – 2371 have the H1N1 flu – in proportion to the population of the world that is a very small number.

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