Carl Zimmer

You can see the ways in which you can at least reduce your risk. But again, people who get Norovirus and are just having horrible experiences at both ends of their bodies, they probably didn't get that through the air. They probably got that through contact of surfaces that were contaminated. There are lots of ways that things can get us sick. It's just that the air is...

Das ist besonders herausfordernd, weil wir alle atmen müssen. Und weil wir keine Systeme auf der Bühne haben, um unsere Luft sauber zu halten. In der gleichen Weise, dass du dir vorstellst, dass die Wasser, die aus deinem Tappen kommt, nicht mit Wasser ausgelastet ist. Wenn es das ist, dann sagst du, was zur Hölle? Und du protestierst und jemand wird aus dem Büro geflüchtet.

Das ist besonders herausfordernd, weil wir alle atmen müssen. Und weil wir keine Systeme auf der Bühne haben, um unsere Luft sauber zu halten. In der gleichen Weise, dass du dir vorstellst, dass die Wasser, die aus deinem Tappen kommt, nicht mit Wasser ausgelastet ist. Wenn es das ist, dann sagst du, was zur Hölle? Und du protestierst und jemand wird aus dem Büro geflüchtet.

Das ist besonders herausfordernd, weil wir alle atmen müssen. Und weil wir keine Systeme auf der Bühne haben, um unsere Luft sauber zu halten. In der gleichen Weise, dass du dir vorstellst, dass die Wasser, die aus deinem Tappen kommt, nicht mit Wasser ausgelastet ist. Wenn es das ist, dann sagst du, was zur Hölle? Und du protestierst und jemand wird aus dem Büro geflüchtet.

Das sind unsere Erwartungen. Und trotzdem... We kind of go about our lives just kind of okay with lots of things floating around us that could make us sick.

Das sind unsere Erwartungen. Und trotzdem... We kind of go about our lives just kind of okay with lots of things floating around us that could make us sick.

Das sind unsere Erwartungen. Und trotzdem... We kind of go about our lives just kind of okay with lots of things floating around us that could make us sick.

You did.

You did.

You did.

Thanks so much.

Great to be here.

Certainly the seed was planted in the pandemic.

You know, I was working as a journalist at the New York Times with a bunch of other reporters at the Times.

There were lots of other science writers also just trying to make sense of this totally new disease.

And we were talking with scientists who were also trying to make sense of the disease.

And so there was a lot of uncertainty, ambiguity, and things started to come into focus.

And I was really puzzled by how hard it was for consensus to emerge about how COVID spread.

And, you know, I did some reporting along with other people on this conflict about was this something that was, you know, spreading on surfaces or was it the word people were using was airborne?

And the World Health Organization said, no, it's not airborne.