The basic story has been told before. In journals...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.13070
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.2021.0017
...and in popular form:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
Write up of the 2023 article:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-while-world-sanitized-surfaces-group-tried-warn-early-about-airborne-spread