"The WHO and CDC chose, at the outset of the pandemic, to assume that COVID was transmitted via droplet. Not only did this assumption turn out to be wrong, it was presented to the public as a scientific fact, rather than what it was - an overly optimistic guess informed by bias and motivated reasoning. This original sin of the pandemic was not a case of misinterpreted or ambiguous findings. Global health bodies decided to declare the virus droplet-borne because of long-held, incorrect prejudices, and the logistical and legal nightmare that airborne infection control would have represented."
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