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Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne.
Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Perceived medical disinformation and public trust: Commentary on Grimes and Greenhalgh (2024).Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- Comparative assessment of airborne infection risk tools in enclosed spaces: Implications for disease control.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2025Article
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- Emerging Human Health Problems Caused by Pathogenic and Immuno-activating Fungi.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2025Review
- Reflections From the Pandemic: Is Connectivism the Panacea for Clinicians?Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
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- Emergency Knowledge Translation, COVID-19 and indoor air: evaluating a virtual ventilation and filtration consultation program for community spaces in Ontario.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Doff Thy Gown-Shedding Contact Precautions for COVID-19.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024Article
- A model of faulty and faultless disagreement for post-hoc assessments of knowledge utilization in evidence-based policymaking.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- New WHO proposed terminology for respiratory pathogen transmission.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Article
- Beyond misinformation: developing a public health prevention framework for managing information ecosystems.The Lancet. Public health · 2024Review
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- Lessons learnt from COVID-19 to reduce mortality and morbidity in the Global South: addressing global vaccine equity for future pandemics.BMJ global health · 2024Review
- On-site airborne pathogen detection for infection risk mitigation.Chemical Society reviews · 2023Review
- Operationalizing cultural adaptation to climate change: contemporary examples from United States agriculture.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Cultivating community-based participatory research (CBPR) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: an illustrative example of partnership and topic prioritization in the food services industry.BMC public health · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
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Funding
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Abstract
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Registered trials
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