“The 56-year-old woman” who died of coronavirus in Springfield on April 8 was more than that description expresses.

She was Angela Faith White, the woman who loved Sara White and her sisters like no one else could.

In this special episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast, Sara White, a 31-year-old Miami Twp. resident, explains how the virus that’s causing havoc around the globe ravaged her mother’s body right here in the Miami Valley.

Sara explains why warnings about the virus should not be taken lightly and why her mother was one of the most unlikely people to contract COVID-19.

Read article Amelia Robinson wrote about Sara White's experience: https://www.dayton.com/news/this-virus-monster-miami-twp-woman-mom-devastating-death-from-coronavirus/SeXG4pXaUif0RGDCUzsTPM/

Find out more about Sara White Leukemia & Lymphoma Society fundraiser: https://pages.lls.org/mwoy/soh/dayton20/swhite

You may not recognize the name, but a ‘Spanish Lady” killed more than 50 million people in 1918 and 1919.

An estimated 500 to 675 of those people lived in or near the Gem City.

Dayton Daily News and Dayton.com photographer and reporter Lisa Powell with the help of colleague Laura Bishoff and local historians uncovered a little known story of how the Spanish Flu shut down Dayton.

In this special episode, Lisa and “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson dish about the Grim Reaper, pestilent houses, the Vicks Vapor Rub shortage, the media blackout and why one solider probably had his fill of cold, soft boiled eggs.

Spanish flu has been compared to the coronavirus pandemic.

More on Dayton during the Spanish Flu:

*** Coronavirus: Social distancing a lesson learned from Spanish flu pandemic

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/coronavirus-social-distancing-lesson-learned-from-spanish-flu-pandemic/L5NM4pYQnrBCdECy9soNZL/

*** Photos: Newspaper articles offer glimpse at Dayton history during the 1918 Spanish flu

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/images-newspaper-articles-offer-glimpse-dayton-history-during-the-1918-spanish-flu/fJMbJhUZGBgzcN0JGGsF2O/

*** Archdeacon: When sports is no longer a diversion

https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/archdeacon-when-sports-longer-diversion/WFkFVmko8wIrDCCeF9wxwM/

Don’t believe in the power of people?

You will after listening to “What Had Happened Was” podcast host Amelia Robinson’s chat with Dayton social healer, community activist and sociologist Amaha Sellassie of Sinclair Community College.

The pair recorded this episode long before the coronavirus crisis drove people into their homes and threatened our very society, but it is a message that the community needs now.

Amelia and Amaha, a leading force behind the Gem City Market, the West Dayton Strong campaign and other community initiatives, talk about strength that helped Dayton through the tragedies of 2019 - the tornadoes, the mass shooting, the KKK rally, etc. - and which will surely be needed in the coming days.

Amaha explains the Above Ground Railroad, redlining impact on this city and why he believes in the power of people even when times are tough.

These are scary and unprecedented times, but knowledge is still power.

In this special episode of the “What Had Happened Was” podcast, host Amelia Robinson chats with Dr. Randy Marriott, an ER physician and EMS Center of Excellence medical director for Premier Health, which includes Miami Valley Hospital.

Dr. Marriott answers your questions about COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, and gives an update on what’s going on in the ER right now.

He explains how you can help doctors, nurses and other staff members before the crisis intensifies. Marriott explains the gag-worthy reasons administering the coronavirus test is a risk to healthcare workers and why it is a test you don't want to take unless you absolutely have to.

The doctor explains when you should go to the ER and why you should stay away if at all possible and why groups of 10, or more might be one too many.

Amelia asks Marriott about gloves, masks and if you can give the coronavirus to your dog.

Put plainly, Jean Johnson doesn’t remember her daughter is her “daughter.” 

Deb Wiltshire certainly remembers all the love her mom gave her before  Alzheimer’s Disease assaulted her mind. 

As coronavirus cases began to grow in the state, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine closed schools, prohibited mass gatherings of more than 100, and banned visitors at nursing homes and state psychiatric hospitals.

Deb hasn't seen Jean since.

She is among the thousands upon thousands of family member cut off from relatives now in nursing home.

"What Had Happened Was" host Amelia Robinson chatted with Deb about Jean for this special episode. Find Amelia's article about Deb and other family members in her same situation on Dayton.com at http://bit.ly/DaytoncomforJean.

In this special episode, "Dayton Daily News" statehouse reporter Laura Bischoff explains the unprecedented steps Ohio Governor Mike DeWine just took due to the nation's coronavirus emergency. She and "What Had Happened Was" host Amelia Robinson discuss the closing of bars and restaurants, reasons behind the governor's actions and when students can expect to be back in school.

Watch for additional updates on this crisis.

As the lyrics go, “breaking up is hard to do.”

That’s as true with newsrooms as it is with relationships.

Thankfully, not all breakups leave you sobbing in the corner with a Teddy bear.

“What Had Happened Was” podcast host Amelia Robinson sat down with Jana Collier, the freshly minted publisher of a newspaper and website group that includes Dayton.com, Dayton Daily News, the Springfield News Sun and the Journal News.

They talk about the shocking twists and turns that preceded the newspaper’s split from WHIO Radio, WHIO-TV and the rest of Cox Media Group.

In this episode, the pair talk about the future of the Dayton Daily News now that it is back in the hands of the Cox family, journalism, Jana’s not-so-secret secret obsession and pop-star dreams, why Daytonians really ought to love Dayton and telling the community’s stories through a year that saw the Klan, a mass shooting and 15 tornadoes come to the region.

The What Had Happened Was podcast is a product of Dayton.com recorded and edited in the DATV studios.

As Executive Director Michael Roediger and Eric Brockman, the museums communications manager, explain, women with baller moves gave birth to the 100-year-old beauty at 456 Belmonte Park N.

The men tell “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson about the socialite who dropped a cool $2 million for the museum’s current building, the director who secured the Monet, the origins of DAI’s Art Ball and Oktoberfest, inclusion and the museum’s next 100 years.

Megan Stalter is not a nurse.

This is probably a good thing given she doesn’t like the sight of blood and a series of chiropractor videos gave her wicked nightmares.

The proud Daytonian, a Wayne High grad, told “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson how she studied everything from nursing to teaching before deciding to pursue her real dream: comedy.

Megan, a “National Lampoon Radio Hour” podcast cast member, wants to do it all.

Others comedians on the sketch comedy podcast include Cole Escola, Jo Firestone,  Brett Davis , Alex English, Maeve Higgins and  guest stars Rachel Dratch, Amy Sedaris, Chris Gethard, Julie Klausner and Jordan Klepper.Megan

Megan and Amelia about Pee-Wee Herman, Megan basically being ejected from a Dayton improv class, the woes of the Interwebs and why Megan says she lives in a sitcom.

What Had Happened Was” is a podcast for Dayton, powered by Dayton.com and recorded in the WHIO Radio studios. You won't believe the stories that come from right here. Host Amelia Robinson shares the best tales from the Gem City, Land of Funk and Birthplace of Aviation: Dayton, Ohio. This podcast is brought to you by Cox Digital Marketing and is sponsored by Premier Health.

All hell had just broken loose the last time McCall Vrydaghs appeared on the “What Had Happened Was” podcast with Amelia Robinson.

This time around, McCall, WHIO’s chief meteorologist, and Kirstie Zontini, her co-host on the “Cloudy with the Chance of Podcast,” join Amelia for a crossover episode that could raise the barometric pressure.

They touch on everything from a baby chef who wants what she wants, weather women power and badass tattoos.

These weather warriors were even able to explain the difference between "weather" and "climate" in a way that Amelia, a bonafide math-phobic word gal, could understand.

They chat about the year that was and its impact on Dayton’s future.

Listen to the latest episode of Cloudy with a Chance of Podcast for the first part of McCall and Kirstie’s chat with Amelia: https://cmg-newspaper.streamguys1.com/Dayton/20200102095746-WhathadHappened.mp3

“What Had Happened Was” is a podcast for Dayton, powered by Dayton.com and recorded in the WHIO Radio studios. You won't believe the stories that come from right here. Host Amelia Robinson shares the best tales from the Gem City, Land of Funk and Birthplace of Aviation: Dayton, Ohio.

This podcast is brought to you by Cox Digital Marketing and is sponsored by Premier Health.