What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Indoor Air · 2022 · PMC9538841 · PMID 36040283

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The acceleration of interdisciplinary research inspired by the COVID‐19 pandemic has shown that airborne transmission is a major mode of transmission for this disease, and is likely to be significant for many respiratory infectious diseases.

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