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. 2022 Feb 5;399(10324):519-520.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02795-1.

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: still up in the air - Authors' reply

Trisha Greenhalgh  1 , Jose L Jimenez  2 , Kimberly A Prather  3 , Zeynep Tufeki  4 , David Fisman  5 , Robert Schooley  6
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Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: still up in the air - Authors' reply

Trisha Greenhalgh et al. Lancet. .
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Conflict of interest statement

DF has served on advisory boards for Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, and Seqirus vaccines and has provided legal advice to the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario and Ontario Nurses’ Association. RS has received consulting fees from Sempra Energy and Lysentech; honoraria from the International Antiviral Society–USA; has a patent application submitted for oral anti-coronavirus compounds; has been on a data safety monitoring board for Merck and Vir Biotechnology; has a voluntary (unpaid) leadership role in the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Foundation Board of Directors and International Antiviral Society–USA; and has stocks or shares in Antiva Biosciences, CytoDyn, and Arcturus. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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