SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly three years since the pandemic first broke out in March of 2020.
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When COVID-19 was still a relatively unknown entity, before vaccines were available and when the shutdown was in full swing, KCBS Radio first introduced its daily "Ask an Expert" segment to address these concerns.
"It is amazing when you stop and look back and realize where we have been," said former KCBS Radio anchor Stan Bunger, who was the first anchor on "Ask an Expert" when it began. "It's remarkable, we've gone through something, we’re still in many ways, in the middle of it."
Bunger retired about a year and a half ago after anchoring for KCBS Radio for years. His turn as the anchor on "Ask an Expert" provided the most up-to-date information on the virus as health experts scrambled to understand COVID-19 better.
"I felt like I was getting direct, unfiltered information," he said. "Not only I was getting it but our audience was getting it."
Nowadays, the numbers are far less frightening than when he first started hosting "Ask an Expert" he told KCBS Radio’s Melissa Culross on Friday.
But since retirement, Bunger has had to put his hard-earned COVID-19 knowledge to the test as he began traveling in the last year.
Most of his trips have been to France, which he’s been to about three times in the last year, and has observed how differently the country has handled the virus compared to the United States.
"Science and progress and strong healthcare systems and all of that exist in both places," he said. But in the southern part of France, it feels as if people have "moved on."
"I don't see as many people wearing a mask, showing that sense of fear, outdoors," said Bunger.
Bunger feels that shift himself, as there isn't as much of a sense of urgency as there was in the early phase of the pandemic.
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