<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">"All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. <em>Droplets! No, aerosols!</em> At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences."
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<font size="4">"...There was just one literally tiny problem: “The physics of it is all
wrong,” Marr says. That much seemed obvious to her from everything she
knew about how things move through air. Reality is far messier, with
particles much larger than 5 microns staying afloat and behaving like
aerosols, depending on heat, humidity, and airspeed. “I’d see the wrong
number over and over again, and I just found that disturbing,” she says.
The error meant that the medical community had a distorted picture of
how people might get sick." </font>
</div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill">https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill</a></font></div></div>