Bonnie Petrie
Bonnie Petrie is a proud new member of the news team at WUWM. She is a reporter who - over her twenty year career - has been honored by both the Texas an New York Associated Press Broadcasters, as well as the Radio, Television and Digital News Association, for her reporting, anchoring, special series production and use of sound.
Bonnie is a native of northern New York, growing up along the Canadian border. She spent nearly fifteen years living and working in Texas. She is also a podcaster, known, in particular, for her series of podcasts for pregnant women and new mothers called Pea in the Podcast.
A mother of one daughter, Bonnie lives in Shorewood.
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The San Antonio AIDS Foundation's CEO says people in the LGBTQ community are fearful that their access to health information and medical care will be curtailed under the Trump Administration's executive orders regarding transgender people and queer identities, and they're terrified of the message the administration is sending. -
UT Health San Antonio is studying an app that it hopes will improve outcomes for people being treated for substance use disorders. -
The CDC is urging manufacturers of a type of flour used to make foods like tortillas and tamales to add folic acid to help lower the risk of some birth defects in the Hispanic population.
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A San Antonio researcher says increased omega-3 fatty acids for people in middle-age are linked to both larger hippocampal volumes and better scores on tests that assess abstract and logical thinking. -
The principal of Robb Elementary School has reportedly been placed on administrative leave, with pay. The suspension was not mentioned at last night’s school board meeting. -
Scientists who track COVID-19 in wastewater say regular surveillance of the sewers could be an effective early warning system for new variants and potential surges. -
Infection-fighting B cells appear to have a poorer "memory" of the COVID virus in those who've suffered severe COVID-19. -
Texas’s primary care doctor shortage has taken a sharp turn for the worse during the pandemic, and one rural family doctor is pleading with state lawmakers to do something about it. -
San Antonio researchers have discovered that the COVID virus can use metal ions like magnesium and calcium in your own body as a disguise to hide itself from your immune system. -
Texans gathering to get supplies and stay warm during last week's winter weather emergency could contribute to another COVID-19 surge. -
Millions are without power in Texas, and that's created problems for scheduled COVID-19 vaccinations. Icy roads mean people can't get to appointments, and some vaccination freezers aren't working.
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A San Antonio mathematician who has modeled this pandemic since the beginning says more than 1 million people could die of COVID-19 by spring.
