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Our paper demonstrating far-field aerosol transmission on the Diamond Princess cruise ship is fully peer-reviewed and published.
1/n https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1357075767016910848
1/n https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1357075767016910848
The NYT covered our work in July when the preprint came out. Good readable summary of the work. We joke that our preprint was published not in NEJM, but NYTJM, because they had over 10 scientists review our work and weigh-in before they went live!
2/n https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/health/diamond-princess-coronavirus-aerosol.html
2/n https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/health/diamond-princess-coronavirus-aerosol.html
Glad this is now fully peer-reviewed and out. Preprint came out over the summer, but modeling started over the winter. (was clear airborne transmission was happening in Feb, and we wanted to model it).
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A key advancement in our approach is that it can simultaneously evaluate several modes of transmission, and it combined mechanistic models with epidemic models.
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Our actual favorite figure in the paper is this one, showing how our model fit with the epi data. (this is when we really knew we were on to something...)
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This work was led by stellar postdoc @parhamazimi_87, w/ key support from @zahra1keshavarz. Great to collaborate with other senior author @stephensbrent (Parham came to us at Harvard from Brent's lab!), and @cedenolaurent
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