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Why The U.S. Keeps Repeating These 5 Pandemic Policy Mistakes

A woman wears a mask while walking past an American flag painted on a wall. (Jeff Chiu/AP)
A woman wears a mask while walking past an American flag painted on a wall. (Jeff Chiu/AP)

The Atlantic’s Zeynep Tufekci joins Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley to discuss how top-down, imprecise messaging from public health officials about how to stay safe during the pandemic has caused confusion and made it harder to fight the coronavirus.

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