balance between

[masterding]

Quote from VOA News:
"You have to strike a delicate balance between making information available for those who have a need to know for the good of public health, as well as not making it so freely available that anyone - even people without a legitimate need to know - can have access to it,"
Should " as well as " be replaced " and" ? As far as I know ,"between" is always paired with "and".
Thanks.

[5jj]

'And' is good; 'as well as' is not.

[tedtmc]

making information available for those who have a need to know

I would prefer:

making information available to those who need to know

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