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Wisconsin GOP leader cites bogus COVID info to nix request

“I don’t know what research they are reading. But COVID-19 can clearly be transmitted via airborne spread,” said Patrick Remington, a former epidemiologist for the CDC and director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

“It might not be the predominant mode of transmission, but it is clearly able to be transmitted via small particles through the air,” Remington said.