This is a little outside my normal coverage, but I thought it interesting that CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta contracted H1N1 flu in Afghanistan earlier this week. He noted his experience on his personal blog.
As the winter flu season gears up this winter, I think there will be a lot more discussion of H1N1. Hopefully, the media will cover this issue responsibly. After the coverage this past Spring, in which all of us were going to die of swine flu in a matter of days, I started to tune out the coverage. Is H1N1 serious? Sure. But the media-instilled panic was reckless.
I’m glad that Dr. Gupta is better. Hopefully his personal experiences will inform a more responsible degree of media coverage on CNN and other media outlets.
