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How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

Medicine and the Machine

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The Droplet Theory of Transmission

"I was absolutely struck at how they refused to contemplate the possibility of airborne spread," he says. "And I'm packing what it was about this particular WHO committee that made them so sure that the droplet theory of transmission was correct" 'The evidence base in favor of that was strong and so sure that aerosol science, the whole of aerosol science was both poor quality and irrelevant,' adds Dr Andrew Hammond.

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