Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?

Lidia Morawska; William Bahnfleth; Philomena M. Bluyssen; Atze Boerstra; Giorgio Buonanno; Stephanie J. Dancer; Andres Floto; Francesco Franchimon; Charles Haworth; Jaap Hogeling; Christina Isaxon; Jose L. Jimenez; Jarek Kurnitski; Yuguo Li; Marcel Loomans; Guy Marks; Linsey C. Marr; Livio Mazzarella; Arsen Krikor Melikov; Shelly Miller; Donald K. Milton; William Nazaroff; Peter V. Nielsen; Catherine Noakes; Jordan Peccia; Xavier Querol; Chandra Sekhar; Olli Seppänen; Shin-ichi Tanabe; Raymond Tellier; Tham Kwok Wai; Pawel Wargocki; Aneta Wierzbicka

doi:10.1093/cid/ciad068

Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?

Lidia Morawska (Corresponding author), William Bahnfleth, Philomena M. Bluyssen, Atze Boerstra, Giorgio Buonanno, Stephanie J. Dancer, Andres Floto, Francesco Franchimon, Charles Haworth, Jaap Hogeling, Christina Isaxon, Jose L. Jimenez, Jarek Kurnitski, Yuguo Li, Marcel Loomans, Guy Marks, Linsey C. Marr, Livio Mazzarella, Arsen Krikor Melikov, Shelly MillerDonald K. Milton, William Nazaroff, Peter V. Nielsen, Catherine Noakes, Jordan Peccia, Xavier Querol, Chandra Sekhar, Olli Seppänen, Shin-ichi Tanabe, Raymond Tellier, Tham Kwok Wai, Pawel Wargocki, Aneta Wierzbicka

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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.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)	1854-1859
Aantal pagina's	6
Tijdschrift	Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume	76
Nummer van het tijdschrift	10
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad068
Status	Gepubliceerd - 15 mei 2023

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Morawska, L., Bahnfleth, W., Bluyssen, P. M., Boerstra, A., Buonanno, G., Dancer, S. J., Floto, A., Franchimon, F., Haworth, C., Hogeling, J., Isaxon, C., Jimenez, J. L., Kurnitski, J., Li, Y., Loomans, M., Marks, G., Marr, L. C., Mazzarella, L., Melikov, A. K., ... Wierzbicka, A. (2023). Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better? Clinical Infectious Diseases, 76(10), 1854-1859. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad068

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