Coronavirus Conversations: Airborne transmission, ventilation, and reopening schools and workplaces

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What is the latest scientific guidance on airborne COVID-19 transmission? And how might that shape strategies around reopening schools and workplaces? As part of our regular series of conversations about the coronavirus and as a special episode in The World’ podcast feed, reporter Elana Gordon moderated a discussion with and Harvard’s healthy buildings expert Joseph Allen.

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