Thread by @jljcolorado

1/ Prof. Lidia Morawska, the leader of our "Group of 36 Scientists" that challenged @WHO from April 2020 on airborne transmission of SARS-COV-2, has been selected as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2021 by @TIME

time.com/collection/100…

2/ "Lidia Morawska stands out among peers for her work in recognizing the importance of aerosol transmission and marshaling the data that would convince the World Health Organization and other authoritative bodies to do the same."

3/ This is a paper from our group and colleagues that Lidia led, and that was published in @ScienceMagazine earlier this year:

"A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection"

This paradigm shift has major implications for global health

science.org/doi/full/10.11…

4/ Lidia was among the first to call attention to the fact that SARS-COV-2 was an airborne virus, despite the denials from @WHO, @CDCgov, & others:

"Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality"

(submitted 3-Apr-2020)

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

5/ She also led this paper from our group about practical ways to limit airborne transmission, which has served as a guide for many mitigation efforts:

"How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised?"

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

6/ LM has participated in many other key papers, e.g. airborne transmission dominating the Skagit Choir outbreak (led by @ShellyMBoulder):

"Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by inhalation of respiratory aerosol in the Skagit Valley Chorale superspreading event"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

7/ And this paper that established the basis for modeling airborne transmission of SARS-COV-2 (e.g. our estimator at tinyurl.com/covid-estimator):

"Estimation of airborne viral emission: Quanta emission rate of SARS-CoV-2 for infection risk assessment"

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

8/ And this paper that applied the airborne transmission model to different outbreaks and scenarios:

"Quantitative assessment of the risk of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Prospective and retrospective applications"

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

9/ Unfortunately it took a year for @WHO to accept Lidia's insights, as summarized in this (highly recommended) article by @MeganMolteni in @WIRED

wired.com/story/the-teen…

10/ Lidia has done so much that I forgot probably the most important: the letter where she led 239 scientists asking @WHO to acknowledge importance of airborne transmission of COVID-19 (July 2019)

"It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of COVID-19"

academic.oup.com/cid/article/71…