Reporting on the whole 'airborne' saga is nerve-wracking, given how high scientific passions run – and justifiably so – on the question of exactly what the term 'airborne' means in the context of infectious respiratory disease.
Here's the latest on this hot-button issue, from Nature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01173-7
#COVID19 #airborne

@biancanogrady "the document sets an important benchmark for how the world responds to the next pandemic.
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this new definition could save lives in future pandemics"

it is strange that they mainly see the significance of this for future measures, while Covid is still spreading and often causes waves of infections and victims.