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HUTCHINSON: "Well, we shouldn't undermine science, we shouldn't undermine the medical community that's very important to our public health. And when you look at how I handled the pandemic in Arkansas, we didn't have mandates of government, forcing people to take the vaccine. But I did go out into the communities, and I had the medical experts there educating them as to how this is beneficial and how this is important. And I had local community doctors addressing that. So I think we are not good as a society, it's not the right direction, if we diminish the facts, we diminish all the best information that we have from science at the time. And sure, during the pandemic things change from time to time. We had more information, so we had to adjust. And that's what leaders do. But I don't think it's good to go back, whether you're going back to the 2020 election or whether you're going back and trying to re-litigate everything that happened during the pandemic. That's not helpful for where we are. And we do need to make sure we get the protection, whether it's a flu shot or whether it's a Covid vaccine. Everybody makes their decision, but I'm for the education and the science behind it."