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Formerly TwitterTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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.@WHO published a global technical consultation report introducing updated terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air: bit.ly/3Q8xlIO
My thanks to Dr Yuguo Li and Dr Gagandeep Kang, co-chairs of the technical group; all the advisory members; @AfricaCDC,…
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Sputnik V
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Reuters: “The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.”👇
www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/after-covid-who-defines-disease-spread-through-air-2024-04-18/
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Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.
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Flying through emotions today about @who's newest document addressing that SARS-2 is airborne and their need to add a new term - infectious respiratory particle. Really? I have moved from confused to dismayed to sad to worried to disgusted. (1/2)
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Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.
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I am feeling awful as it dawns on me that @who and other global public health organizations have officially gaslighted the world regarding an airborne infectious virus that has harmed millions of people. The virus travels in the air and can be inhaled. We knew this since SAR-1.
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By Apoorva Mandavilli
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