Why did it take 1 Year for WHO to recognize COVID-19 is airborne?

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the WHO’s announcement that the COVID-19 pandemic is airborne, and its implications on how we understand the disease

May 30, 2021 by Newsclick

In this episode of Talking Science and Tech, Newsclick editor Prabir Purkayastha talks about the issue of how COVID-19 spreads, why it took one year since the pandemic began for the WHO to recognize COVID is airborne, and what it means about dealing with the spread of the virus.