TY - JOUR
AU - Morawska, Lidia
AU - Bahnfleth, William P.
AU - Bluyssen, Philomena M.
AU - Boerstra, Atze
AU - Buonanno, Giorgio
AU - Dancer, Stephanie J.
AU - Floto, Andres
AU - Franchimon, Francesco
AU - Haworth, Charles
AU - Hogeling, Jaap
AU - Isaxon, Christina
AU - Jimenez, Jose L.
AU - Kurnitski, Jarek
AU - Li, Yuguo
AU - Loomans, Marcel
AU - Marks, Guy
AU - Marr, Linsey C.
AU - Mazzarella, Livio
AU - Melikov, Arsen Krikor
AU - Miller, Shelly L.
AU - Milton, Donald K.
AU - Nazaroff, William W.
AU - Nielsen, Peter V.
AU - Noakes, Catherine J.
AU - Peccia, Jordan
AU - Querol, Xavier
AU - Sekhar, Chandra
AU - Seppänen, Olli
AU - Tanabe, Shin-ichi
AU - Tellier, Raymond
AU - Wai, Tham Kwok
AU - Wargocki, Pawel
AU - Wierzbicka, Aneta
PY - 2023
DA - February
TI - COVID-19 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?
JO - Science of the total environment
DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad068
AB - 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.
PB - Oxford University Press
UR - https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/output/3062899/covid-19-and-airborne-transmission-science-rejected-lives-lost-can-society-do-better
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER