Letter to BS: Pandemic has many dimensions, needs a fair investigation

The World Health Organization (WHO) has long held that the novel coronavirus is spread primarily through small droplets from nose or mouth when a person infected with Covid-19 coughs, sneezes or speaks. But according to The New York Ti­mes, in an open letter to the WHO, more than 239 scientists from 32 countries have warned that airborne transmission of the virus indoors should be taken more seriously. They have called on the WHO to revise its recommendations, which they say, underestimate the dangers of transmission indoors.

Though the WHO did not immediately respond, Paul Hunter, a me­mber of its infection-prevention co­mmittee,