The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED
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.
Save this story Save this story Early one morning, Linsey Marr tiptoed to her dining room table, slipped on a headset, and fired up Zoom. On her computer screen, dozens of familiar faces began to appear. She also saw a few people she didn’t know, including Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for Covid-19, and other expert advisers to the WHO. It was just past 1 pm Geneva time on April 3, 2020, but in Blacksburg, Virginia, where Marr lives with her husband and two children, dawn was just beginning to break. Marr is an aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech and one of
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airbornenature.com
- America is giving up on the pandemic? | Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com
- What most surprised experts about the Covid pandemic | STATstatnews.com
- Inevitable Outbreaks: How to Stop an Age of Spillovers From Becoming an Age of Pandemicsforeignaffairs.com
- Interceptinterceptfund.com
- What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulationsncase.me
- Better air quality is the easiest way not to diedynomight.net
- The Year the Pandemic “Ended” (Part III) – The New Inquirythenewinquiry.com
- Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over — LessWronglesswrong.com
- What to know about Arcturus as WHO declares COVID emergency over | National Postnationalpost.com
- Corrupted Blood incident - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Indoor Air Quality Is the Next Great Public Health Challenge | IFPifp.org