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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Covid, The Flu, Transmission

  If you can gain access to this article please read it. There's some useful and helpful information here.

NY Times: What We Know About Covid, the Flu and the Air We Breathe By Linsey Marr - Dr. Marr is an engineering professor at Virginia Tech, where she studies the airborne transmission of viruses.

If recommendations to combat the flu continue to rely heavily on hand washing and surface cleaning, without recognizing the role of aerosols in transmission, we are unlikely to make a dent in the 12,000 to 52,000 deaths in the United States per year caused by the flu.

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