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

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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.

This segment aired on March 1, 2021.

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