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To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air

Medicine and the Machine

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The Reluctance to Change the Concept of Airborne Diseases

The World Health Organization and the CDC were reluctant to accept data that this was not just or not even a droplet story, but rather that this was truly aerosolized. Why is this just a reflection of unwillingness to be receptive to new ideas? I mean, you know about this for quite some time. And so I think it's hard, it's hard to change people's minds when they've learned something in a textbook.

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