How Respiratory Viruses Really Spread

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

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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

Aiming to improve scientific literacy in this age of information overload and mis/disinformation, especially on controversial and polarizing topics.