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80013
At first, it looked as if David Fedeli might
catch a break.
Although his southeast Aurora home was
listed among the 237 foreclosure filings in
that part of town in the first quarter of 2009,
he and his wife, Kim, weathered the process
in order to renegotiate a burdensome
interest-only loan.
Along the Front Range, no ZIP code Soon afterward, though, Fedeli, 50, joined
237
ed along Colorado’s Front Range in both
first-quarter foreclosure filings and total un-
employment claims in March — a distinction
Denver New foreclosure
that, at first glance, seems at odds with the ar-
ea’s demographic profile of middle-class filings in the
homeowners and precious little poverty. 80013 80013 ZIP code
Yet the effects of the recession have during the first
slammed hard into its neighborhoods, busi- quarter of 2009, the highest number
nesses, schools — almost any institution you along Colorado’s Front Range.

has been hit harder by the twin blows

of foreclosure and unemployment.
1,406 others in his area on the unemployment
rolls when his job with a printing company
evaporated.
But here’s the economic indicator that hits
him right where he lives: 80013.
By Kevin Simpson, Burt Hubbard and Carlos Illescas
The Denver Post His ZIP code ranks first among the 222 locat-
can imagine. Foreclosures drag down real es-
tate prices and decimate neighborhoods.
Empty seats populate local restaurants.
1,407
People in 80013 drawing unemploy-
Schools see students needing not just a free
lunch, but medical care and a place to live. ment benefits as of March 31.
80013 » 12A Photo: Judy DeHaas, The Denver Post

WOODY
SWINE-FLU SCARE

CAUTION FROM ’76 VACCINE

PAIGE
Denver Post
Columnist

Bowlen
unshaken
on vision
for Broncos
interview: Team owner is
confused by Cutler, realistic on
’09 and confident of the future.

T
hese are the times that have
tried Pat Bowlen’s soul. The
past 4K months have been
the most tumultuous in the quarter-
century reign of the Denver Bron-
cos’ owner. He has fired, hired and
traded and celebrated his 65th birth-
day and his 25th anniversary as an
owner.
What will May bring for Patrick
Dennis Bowlen?
In a wide-ranging exclusive inter-
view, his first since a chaotic series of
events began in mid-December, the
Broncos’ owner and CEO declares:
B Even now, he doesn’t understand
why former quarterback Jay Cutler
wouldn’t return his calls and wanted
out of Denver.
B The Broncos will “probably not”
win the Super Bowl next season.
B He would have preferred that the
Broncos had drafted more defensive
players last weekend.

“
B He has not spoken to Mike Shana- By Jennifer Brown The Denver Post “I recall it ruined my Thanksgiving weekend,” he I thought
han since he fired him. said. “I thought I’d be better by Monday, but I

B He has turned over additional or-
ganizational responsibilities to chief
operating officer Joe Ellis.
PAIGE » 19A
A&E
W
hen Scott Heath stepped onto a parked wasn’t.” I’d be better
public bus in 1976 for a free swine-flu
shot, he considered himself “civic-
What happened to Heath helps explain why federal
and state officials have been more cautious and delib-
by Monday,
minded”: doing his part to help the erate during the current H1N1 scare than their prede- but I wasn’t.”
country avoid a pandemic. cessors were in 1976.
It was a decision he believes nearly killed him. President Gerald Ford’s $135 million inoculation Scott Heath, above,
Within days, the Denver man was mute and para- VACCINE » 19A suffered severe side
lyzed, an extreme reaction to a vaccine that critics effects from a 1976
said was rushed by the federal government to calm Prevention» CDC and other global health swine-flu vaccine.
fears of a massive flu outbreak. organizations work on new vaccine. »18A Joe Amon, The Denver Post

Young genius hitting his stride

Four-and-a-half years ago, The Denver Post told the story of Ryan Kramer,
GET YOUR a 14-year-old prodigy who had started at CU that fall. He graduates Friday.
POPCORN READY By Michael Booth on self-doubt.
This summer promises to be The Denver Post Ryan Kramer, at age 18, is a na-
the best movie season ever — nometer from graduating one of
at least that’s what the studios Deep in a gadget-littered warren the most difficult science programs
of CU-Boulder’s aerospace lab, in the nation. Other students his
are saying. »1E
Ryan Kramer labors toward a se- age are booking a prom limo, while
nior thesis deadline that tends to be he ponders offers from aerospace
PERSPECTIVE a great leveler of humanity. grad schools at the University of
Young or old, male or female, bril- Southern California and Duke.
Spring cleaning» liant or merely super-smart, every- But Kramer, who entered the Uni-
one here is short on sleep and long KRAMER » 4A
Things we want to
change. » 
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A snapshot of the infection

The first case of swine flu in the United States was confirmed in San Diego on April 15 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Through Friday, 152 more cases had been confirmed across 24 states. More than
half of those cases were children, prompting officials in several states to order school closings. And more than half of the confirmed cases were linked to people who had traveled to Mexico recently or have a close
connection to someone who has.
153 cases confirmed by the CDC or state and 36 37 80 79 are known to have traveled to Mexico recently
county health agencies as of midnight Friday (that adults age unknown children or have a close connection to someone who has
figure had grown to 197 by Saturday)

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MAINE
A 60-year-old woman and The first One of two people infected A middle school Two school-aged brothers
her 20-month-old confirmed case in Colorado was a man in closed after a person were exposed to the virus
MINN.
granddaughter recently in northern his 40s who worked as a there contracted the while vacationing in
traveled to Mexico with California was a baggage handler at Denver virus. Two adjacent Mexico.
other family members. private school International Airport. schools also closed.
student.
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All 13 cases are linked S.C.
PHOENIX to a private school
AREA where some students
GA.
had recently returned
from a school trip to
TEXAS Mexico. NEW YORK CITY,
LONG ISLAND
SAN ANTONIO Almost all of the
SAN DIEGO AND AREA
DALLAS-FORT WORTH FIRST DEATH cases are linked
IMPERIAL COUNTIES
The Fort Worth HOUSTON AREA to the St. Francis
A 10-year-old San Diego boy and a FLA. Preparatory
9-year-old girl from Imperial County Independent School A 21-month-old boy from
District closed all Mexico City became the School in
were among the first confirmed cases Queens, where
in the United States. The girl 140 schools after a first and only person so far
case was to die of swine flu in the some students
attended a fair that had pigs about had recently
four weeks before she became ill, confirmed at one United States after being
of its schools. airlifted two weeks ago to a returned from a
though she said she did not see pigs BROWNSVILLE trip to Mexico.
at the event. Houston hospital from the border
town of Brownsville.
Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; state and county health departments Joe Burgess, Farhana Hossain, Haeyoun Park, Amy Schoenfeld and Archie Tse/The New York Times

Flu outbreak may help globe prepare

In two earlier pandemics, a
“herald wave” broke out, then
went underground. Experts
say this may be occurring.
By Suzanne Bohan
McClatchy Newspapers
walnut creek, calif.» Ironical-
ly, the late-spring outbreak of the
swine flu might offer the best-case sce-
nario for controlling the spread of
swine flu, many health experts say.
That’s because it has provided a pre-
lude of what’s to come this fall.
These kinds of “herald waves” pre-
ceded past pandemics in 1918 and
1957.
This time, flu monitoring systems,
combined with the unusual timing of
the outbreak, allowed public health ex-
perts to detect the strain before its ex-
pected retreat this summer.
“It’s one possible scenario, and it’s
the best possible scenario,” said Dr.
Paul Glezen, a flu specialist from Bay-
lor College of Medicine in Houston
who coined the term “herald wave” in
a 1982 journal article.
Glezen used it to describe an unusu-
al pattern he found in flu outbreaks, in
which a new flu strain emerged to-
ward the end of the season and then re-
turned to cause the next year’s out-
break.
That happened in the 1918 pandem-
ic, which killed about 50 million peo-
ple worldwide. Glezen said research-
ers realized in retrospect that there
was an earlier outbreak in 1917 that
heralded the pandemic. In that out-
break, soldiers at a French military
camp died from the flu.
The 1957 Asian flu, which killed
2 million people worldwide, also be-
gan with a herald wave in the spring
in China.
“It spread throughout the summer
months around the world at low lev-
els, and then expanded in the late fall
to a large number of cases,” said Dr.
Robert Belshe, who runs a vaccine de-
velopment center at St. Louis Univer-
sity’s School of Medicine in Missouri.
“Yes, I agree we might be seeing the
herald wave for the fall epidemic,”
Belshe said of the swine-flu outbreak.
Many public health experts expect
the swine-flu virus to retreat during
the summer, when temperatures and
humidity work against the microbe be-
cause it spreads best under condi-
tions of low humidity.
In a Friday press briefing, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention of-
ficials said the CDC and other global
health organizations are working
with vaccine manufacturers on the
early stages of vaccine development
and to swiftly ramp up production for
a swine-flu vaccine if deemed neces-
sary.
Across the globe, people donned masks to guard against the spread of swine flu. Some felt compelled to add a
sartorial statement to their respiratory protection. Meanwhile, documented cases of the flu had risen to 779
worldwide and 197 in the United States. AFP/Getty Images
CAUTIOUS S CH O O L DI ST RI CT
Aspen kids to stay home after trips to Mexico, Calif.
By The Associated Press
aspen» The Aspen school district
is asking students returning from Mex-
ico and a school-sponsored trip to San
Diego to stay home from school for a
week as a precaution against spread-
ing swine flu.
District officials have asked 23
sixth-graders who worked in soup kitch-
ens around San Diego to stay home un-
til May 11 and are contacting the parents
of 14 children returning from Mexico.
They say the students were in areas
with high incidences of the flu.
Students who were in New Mexico
to work with schoolchildren from
Mexico aren’t being asked to stay
Latest
developments
B Deaths: 19 confirmed in Mexi-
co and one confirmed in U.S., a
21-month-old boy from Mexico
who died in Texas.
B Confirmed sickened world-
wide: 809; confirmed sickened
in U.S.: 197.
B Mexico’s health secretary says
confirmed swine-flu cases have in-
creased to 473, including 19 peo-
ple who died. Jose Angel Cordova
is urging citizens not to let their
guard down, even though cases
outside Mexico suggest the flu
strain is weaker than feared.
B U.S. President Barack
Obama urged caution Saturday
in his weekly radio and Internet
address. “This is a new strain of
the flu virus, and because we
haven’t developed an immunity
to it, it has more potential to
cause us harm,” Obama said. Lat-
er, he spoke with Mexican Presi-
dent Felipe Calderon for about
20 minutes to share information.
B The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention says
about a third of the confirmed
U.S. cases are people who had
been to Mexico.
B A World Health Organiza-
tion official said Saturday that
he thinks the agency’s infec-
tious-disease alert level ultimate-
ly will be raised to its highest
point. “We have to expect that
Phase 6 will be reached,” said
Michael Ryan, the agency’s direc-
tor of global alert and response.
B Canadian officials say pigs in
Alberta have been infected with
the new swine-flu virus and are
under quarantine.
B U.S. Sen. Mark Udall,
D-Colo., said the spread of swine
flu stresses the importance of in-
vesting in research on infectious
diseases. He toured an infec-
tious-disease center at Colorado
State University on Saturday.
The Associated Press
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There have been two confirmed cas-
es of swine flu in Colorado. The Dou-
glas County man and Arapahoe
County woman have recovered.
Colorado health officials are wait-
ing for the test results from six more
people.
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VACCINE: Hundreds
« FROM 1A
program resulted in the vaccinations
of 45 million Americans in the fall of
1976 before it was abandoned, linked
— fairly or not — to about 500 cases of
neurological disorder and 25 deaths.
Hundreds of people, including Heath,
sued the federal government.
Heath, a Harvard-educated graphic
designer who was 25 when he was vac-
cinated in downtown Denver, was
awarded $1.2 million in an out-of-
court settlement.
He now works in the research de-
partment for Bonfils Blood Center in
Denver, and he recalled last week
how that swine-flu vaccination
changed his life.
His first symptoms were aches, fe-
ver and delirium. He was vomiting
and seizing when his roommates
rushed him to Mercy Hospital.
When he regained consciousness
weeks later, President-elect Jimmy
Carter’s inauguration was on televi-
sion. Heath, who had voted for Carter
a couple of weeks before getting his
vaccination, was still unable to speak
or walk.
Slowly, he began to regain his
speech. But even now, at 58 years old,
he talks slowly, deliberately and in a
monotone. He must force himself to
articulate each word to be under-
stood.
It took 10 years before Heath re-
gained his balance enough to walk
again. Today, he sometimes uses a
cane, and his gait is wide and jerky.
He never returned to his job as a
graphic designer — he no longer had
the fine motor skills to use an Xacto
knife or perform the cutting and past-
ing skills that the job required. Instead,
he went to the University of Colorado
Denver to earn an English degree and,
later, an education degree.
Heath met his wife, Linda Smoke, at
an aikido dojo. She was a lawyer
dragged to a meditation course by a
“hippie friend.” Heath was there be-
cause he thought practicing martial
arts would help him ditch the cuff
canes he was using to walk.
They married in 1990 and have an
18-year-old daughter, Sarah.
Under an annuity created by the set-
tlement, Heath has received a few hun-
dred thousand dollars, enough to buy
a place to live and pay for physical
therapy, he said. Doctors have told
him he might have had an underlying
genetic condition that surfaced after
the flu shot.
More than 30 years later, Heath isn’t
bitter. He says he never was, perhaps
because the neurological damage
“generally flattened” his emotions.
“By the time I got back the ability to
be angry or resentful, it was so far in
the past, it was in the abstract to me,”
PAIGE: Bowlen confidant Ellis has gained clout in restructuring
« FROM 1A
B He has “absolutely” no plans to
sell the franchise.
B His new coach, Josh McDaniels,
committed “rookie mistakes,” but he
fully supports him and is growing
more assured he will be outstanding
in the long term.
B His health “is good,” but he has ex-
perienced “short-term memory loss”
in recent months.
Bowlen is the longest-tenured, and
most successful, owner in the history
of Denver’s major-league sports fran-
chises. His teams have won two Su-
per Bowls and five conference cham-
pionships. During his ownership, the
Broncos have moved into a new stadi-
um, originated the Ring of Fame, do-
nated tens of millions of dollars to
charities and the University of Den-
ver, changed the dominant color of
the uniforms, extended the home sell-
out streak to 40 years, built a new
headquarters and become one of the
winningest teams in the NFL.
But Bowlen’s reputation has taken
a hit of late because of the Broncos’
devastating decline the past three
seasons that led to his firing Shanah-
an and hiring McDaniels, and the cir-
cus that became known as McJay-
Gate involving Cutler.
Nevertheless, Bowlen said: “I’m re-
juvenated. I haven’t been in this posi-
tion for quite a while.”
Not afraid of risks
Bowlen is a high-risk/high-reward
guy who acknowledges he was influ-
enced by his father, who earned his
fortune as an oil wildcatter. After get-
ting a law degree and becoming an at-
torney, Bowlen joined his father’s
business, then extended his holdings
into real estate and, at age 40, profes-
sional football.
“People will say I was lucky. I
think I’ve always taken calculated
risks,” Bowlen said. “In this business,
Now 58 years old, Scott Heath talks slowly, deliberately and in a monotone. More than 30 years after getting the
swine-flu shot that he believes nearly killed him, Heath isn’t bitter. He says he never was, perhaps because the
neurological damage that he suffered after the shot “generally flattened” his emotions. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
he said. “I’m starting to think that the
injury, the neurological effects, may
also include what they call affect — or
my emotional reactions.”
Looking back, he believes the gov-
ernment rushed the vaccine to peo-
ple, who were wary of another pan-
demic like the bird-flu strain that
killed more than 548,000 Americans
in 1918 and 1919. The so-called Spanish
flu killed about 6,000 Coloradans, ac-
cording to Denver Post archives.
Heath recalls Ford taking his swine-
flu vaccine, calling for “every man,
woman and child” to get vaccinated.
“It was a civic-minded thing as
much as anything else,” he said. “I had
heard that this was a free program,
and I knew what they were trying to
achieve.”
Today, many scientists believe
links between the 1976 vaccine and
neurological disorders were exagger-
ated, at best. Even if there were ad-
verse reactions, vaccines today have
fewer proteins and additives with the
potential to cause problems.
Still, some experts warn that any-
time there is mass inoculation, there
is the possibility for real — or per-
“
In this business, you have to take risks on
players and coaches. There’s been a lot of
that going on lately, but I feel good about
the risks I’ve taken.”
Pat Bowlen, Broncos owner
you have to take risks on players and
coaches. There’s been a lot of that go-
ing on lately, but I feel good about
the risks I’ve taken.”
Bowlen’s presence has never been
more pronounced than it was during
the Cutler saga. Bowlen eventually
ordered that Cutler be traded after
the quarterback spurned his request
to talk about differences he had with
McDaniels, who had discussions
with other teams about possibly trad-
ing Cutler.
“Honestly, I still don’t know what
happened with Jay. I don’t want to
throw him under the bus, but I made
two phone calls (and there is proof,
Broncos executives claim) and left
voice mails with my cell number and
asked him to call me, and he didn’t,”
Bowlen said. “I don’t do e-mails. If
sued feds over effects
ceived — adverse effects.
Health authorities said last week
that the nation, if necessary, could
have a vaccine to combat the H1N1 vi-
rus within six months, in time for next
year’s flu season when the virus could
return in a more virulent form.
Americans could get two shots next
fall — one to fight off the seasonal flu
and another for H1N1, said Dr.
Michelle Barron, a professor of infec-
tious diseases at the University of Col-
orado Denver School of Medicine.
What went wrong, if anything, with
the 1976 vaccine has never been defini-
tively answered. One theory is that
there was too much egg protein in the
shot, said Arthur Allen, author of
“Vaccine: The Controversial Story of
Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver.”
“I don’t think anybody really under-
stands what happened in 1976,” Allen
said. “Whenever you have mass vacci-
nation campaigns, you tend to have
more adverse events. It’s more visi-
ble.”
Many of those severely sickened af-
ter getting the vaccine had Guillain-
Barré syndrome, a neurological disor-
der. But studies since then have
Jay had called and said he thought
the coach was (not a nice person)
and he wanted out of here, I would
have said, ‘Let’s work this out.’ But I
heard nothing directly from him.
“Pick up the phone! That’s where
we got off the rails. We had no other
choice but to trade him. If (the trade
talk) was the reason Jay left, he
should have left.”
Bowlen is pleased with the quarter-
back, Kyle Orton, and the draft picks
the Broncos got in return from Chica-
go, but when told many were puz-
zled why McDaniels didn’t choose
more defensive players in the recent
draft, Bowlen replied:
“Me, too.”
But, he backed the draft plan of his
coach and general manager Brian
Xanders. “I hired them to do their
shown the incidence of the syndrome
was no higher among people who had
the swine-flu vaccine.
Heath’s condition — he developed
encephalitis — was more extreme.
The 1976 inoculation campaign
proved unnecessary, said Dr. Edward
Janoff, director of the Mucosal and
Vaccine Research Program at UC
Denver. But he called the notion that
the vaccine was dangerous a “persist-
ing urban legend.”
Among the questions before world
health authorities now is whether
H1N1 is destructive enough to war-
rant mass inoculation, said Janoff,
who added that only a tiny portion of
people have adverse reactions to vac-
cines.
“No one will be forced to take a vac-
cine,” he said.
“There is no line ’em up, shoot ’em
up. Everyone will be informed of the
potential benefits and risks.”
Researcher Barry Osborne contributed
to this report.
Jennifer Brown: 303-954-1593
or jenbrown@denverpost.com
jobs,” he said. “I believe in them. It’s
not my role to evaluate players and
make those draft decisions. I’m not
qualified to do it.”
Practically every season, Bowlen
proclaims that the Broncos will win
the Super Bowl. That’s part opti-
mism, part foolishness, part humor
and, at times, strong conviction. But
he’s not doing so this year.
“Win the Super Bowl? Probably
not. But if we lose our first two
games — and that’s a possibility —
I’m not going to panic. I’m in this to
win Super Bowls, and we’re going to
get back (there). I’m more patient
than I used to be, but I’m going to
give Josh an opportunity to succeed.”
Continuing with strong effort
Bowlen hasn’t shied away from
spending millions on signing bonus-
es in recent years, and many of those
players were busts. But he said he’ll
continue to make every effort to put
the best team possible on the field.
“We’ve wanted to be right 100 per-
cent of the time,” he said. “Maybe
we’ve been right 50 percent. We’ve
made mistakes. But I’ve always been
willing to spend what it takes to try
to get players to help this team get to
the Super Bowl and not fall to the
bottom of the food chain.
“I’m not in this for money. I make
enough to keep my family very com-
fortable.”
There have been hints Bowlen has
fallen into serious debt in the after-
math of wasting money on free
agents who didn’t pan out, combined
with the severe economic downturn,
his investment in the stadium, and
the $21 million still due Shanahan, as
well as guarantees to fired assistant
coaches. He is not among the richest
NFL owners, and a majority of his in-
come is football-based. The Broncos
also laid off several employees last
year. But he said the franchise is in
stable financial shape.
NEWS «19A
FLU ANXIETY
About 36,000 people, mostly the
very young, very old and those
with other conditions, die from
flu-related causes in the United
States annually. Others who get
the flu feel ill and uncomfortable
but find it more annoying than
life-threatening.
So, why should everyone be
worried about this new strain?
People have limited natural immu-
nities to combat new strains of
the flu, such as the strain behind
the current outbreak. The lack of
widespread immunity allows a
strain to travel more quickly
through the population than a
known strain where immunities
have developed.
No two strains act alike, making it
difficult to predict how a new
strain might act or affect certain
segments of the population — in-
cluding the healthy.
The current strain also concerns
health experts because it appears
to spread person to person more
easily than past swine flus.
Will it get worse?
Right now, it is too early to tell
whether this strain will die out or
evolve into something more seri-
ous.
Michael Osterholm, an expert on
global flu outbreaks, told The As-
sociated Press last week that the
situation is between “something
that could literally die out over
the next couple of weeks and nev-
er show up again, or this could be
the opening act of a full-fledged
influenza pandemic.”
This in-between period during
which a strain can evolve
might prove crucial.
Some scientists speculate that the
1918 flu pandemic, which started
with a wave of mild illness, some-
how changed before unleashing a
far deadlier wave in the fall that
was most lethal to young, healthy
adults. The 1918 flu pandemic
killed an estimated 20 million to
50 million people worldwide.
Sources: The Associated Press; World
Health Organization; Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention
Barry Osborne, The Denver Post
“If I wanted to make a fortune, I’d
sell the team,” he said. “But I’m do-
ing exactly what I want to be doing,
and we’re fine financially.” (Fortune
magazine valued the Broncos at $1 bil-
lion last year.)
Bowlen and his wife, Annabel,
have five children, but the Broncos’
owner said none has expressed “aspi-
rations about running a football
team.”
Bowlen said that while he is in-
volved in every facet of the organiza-
tion, Ellis, his confidant, has been giv-
en more power in the restructuring
since Shanahan was fired. “Joe is han-
dling all the things I’m not particular-
ly interested in, making more major
decisions,” he said.
Ellis, who was director of market-
ing when Bowlen bought the majori-
ty ownership of the Broncos in 1984,
has served in several executive ca-
pacities. He was named COO last
year. Ellis, several sources say, was
instrumental in getting Bowlen to
agree to fire Shanahan, hire
McDaniels (Ellis alone met with the
new coach for a second interview)
and trade Cutler.
As for his health, Bowlen said he is
not slowing down or slacking off.
“My health is excellent, for a guy my
age, although I’m not going to do any
more triathlons.”
The owner paused and said: “I
have short-term memory loss. I
know that some of the memories of
the Super Bowl championships are
fading.”
Asked if he was concerned about
the memory loss worsening, Bowlen
said:
“Not really. It comes with age.”
Bowlen is seeking new memories.
“I love what I’m doing. I’m enjoying
this offseason more than I have in a
long time.”
Woody Paige: 303-954-1095
or wpaige@denverpost.com