6 July

This is a paper that may change the pandemic. A few hundred international experts pleading to change social distancing rules, because they're sure the virus is mostly transmitted through the air. (Astonishing that we didn't think this right from the start.) That would mean all the stuff about 1.5m distance and handwashing, while still important, will fall away compared to the need to get people out of shared indoor spaces wherever possible. That's 'opening up' well and truly stuffed, and is why this is being resisted so hard. (Click on 'pdf' to read it, it's not long.) https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa939/5867798