@article{Morawska_L-2023_127630,
title = {COVID-19 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?},
author = {Morawska, L. and Bahnfleth, W. and Bluyssen, P. and Boerstra, A. and Buonanno, G. and Dancer, S. and Floto, A. and Franchimon, F. and Haworth, C. and Hogeling, J. and Isaxon, C. and Jimenez, J. and Kurnitski, J. and Li, Y. and Loomans, M. and Marks, G. and Marr, L. and Mazzarella, L. and Melikov, A. and Miller, S. and Milton, D. and Nazaroff, W. and Nielsen, P. and Noakes, C. and Peccia, J. and Querol, X. and Sekhar, C. and Seppänen, O. and Tanabe, S. and Tellier, R. and Wai, T. and Wargocki, P. and Wierzbicka, A.},
month = {feb},
year = {2023},
abstract = {This is an account that should be heard of an important struggle: the struggle of a large group of experts who came together at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to warn the world about the risk of airborne transmission and the consequences of ignoring it. We alerted the World Health Organization about the potential significance of the airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the urgent need to control it, but our concerns were dismissed. Here we describe how this happened and the consequences. We hope that by reporting this story we can raise awareness of the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the need to be open to new evidence, and to prevent it from happening again. Acknowledgement of an issue, and the emergence of new evidence related to it, is the first necessary step towards finding effective mitigation solutions.},
journal = {Science of the total environment},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad068},
}
