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The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

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  • May 13, 2021
  • #Covid-19 #NaturalScience
Megan Molteni
@MeganMolteni
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www.wired.com
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All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

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Arvind Narayanan @random_walker ยท May 20, 2021
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This brilliant, far-too-polite article should be the go-to reference for why "follow the science" is utterly vacuous. The science of aerosol transmission was there all along. It could have stopped covid. But CDC/WHO didn't follow the science. Nor did scientists for the most part.
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