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Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne (Nature, 6 April 2022)

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Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted through the air. That mistake and the prolonged process of correcting it sowed confusion and raises questions about what will happen in the next pandemic. This Nature feature looks at the changing views of how Covid is spread.

Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne (Nature, 6 April 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

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