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Swine flu: Did the government overreact?

Now that swine flu appears to be waning in Mexico and has generally caused mild illness in the United States, people are starting to ask: Did the government overreact? Did hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren need to stay home? Did cartons of Tamiflu need to be shipped to states by the federal government? Did we need round-the-clock media coverage? The head of the World Health Organization, Dr....

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