The most important and fundamental misjudgment about the viral enemy was about how it spread. Early on, the U.S. government and the WHO mistakenly assessed that the virus was transmitted on surfaces, or large respiratory droplets, and that aerosol transmission was rare. The truth was just the opposite.14 Experts, including the Wolverines network, were already calling out this misjudgment and pressing the case for aerosol transmission.
