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Why did it take so long to say 'airborne'?

Conor Dillon | Gabriel Borrud
September 8, 2022

Denying COVID was "airborne" — and later acknowledging it was — will likely go down as one of the worst mistakes ever made in the history of global health. How could it have happened?

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