Public Aware of Key Swine Flu Facts: Health Care Debate Still Top Story

In a busy late summer news stretch, Americans continued to track news about the health care debate more closely than other major stories last week. The economy, the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and the strange case of a California woman rescued from long-time captors also vied for the public’s attention.

Many also followed reports about preparations for the second wave of the swine...