How Respiratory Viruses Really Spread

We got it wrong with cholera, measles, tuberculosis, and SARS-CoV-2

Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
Medium Coronavirus Blog
11 min readMay 21, 2021

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How an infectious disease spreads from one person to another is a question so vital that if we get it wrong, we will fail to control its spread and may even make it worse than it has to be.

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Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
Medium Coronavirus Blog

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