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2024-09-05 19:26:09 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5A45F7FE6E7107FA15733E2559913619BA941C28B7C25BEAE8E9D268AA8E2081
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Original Note:
Fauci did not invent the six foot rule himself, it is a common error among infectious disease clinicians, attributable to a lack of mechanistic understanding of aerosol science and how diseases are transmitted. Academic review of the origins of this error: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9538841/ Lay article: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
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