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To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air

Medicine and the Machine

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Introduction

Dr. Lindsey Marr is the Charles Lundford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. She's been a leader in the pandemic and well before this on interactions of viruses and animal materials in the atmosphere. The default assumption in medicine was that respiratory pathogens, colds, flues, other things were transmitted by large droplets that either sprayed and landed in someone else's eyes, nose or mouth.

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