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Mark Pryor: But given the last few months where the flu was first discovered in North America and it was almost wall-to-wall…

On the recordJune 2, 2009
But given the last few months where the flu was first discovered in North America and it was almost wall-to-wall coverage there for several days on the cable news channels, etc., how did the media do and how did the public health officials and the elected officials do in getting the word out to the public and communicating the nature of this?
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Mark Pryor
Democratic · Arkansas

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Senator Pryor questions the effectiveness of communication during the flu outbreak.

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