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Controversy over airborne transmission of COVID-19 'a tempest in a teapot,' Dr. Bonnie Henry says

from CBC News

Controversy over airborne transmission of COVID-19 'a tempest in a teapot,' Dr. Bonnie Henry says CBC News B.C.'s provincial health officer says the controversy over airborne transmission of COVID-19 has been overblown, after hundreds of scientists signed a letter calling for the World Health Organization to revise its recommendations. In an open letter to the WHO, 239 scientists in 32 countries have reportedly argued particles smaller than what has previously been reported can carry the novel coronavirus and infect people. According to a story in the New York Times, those scientists want the global health body to begin treating COVID-19 as an airborne illness. READ MORE

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