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Issue date 2021 15-21 May.
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Greenhalgh T, Jimenez JL, Prather KA, Tufekci Z, Fisman D, Schooley R. Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Lancet 2021; 397: 1603–05—In this Comment, the conflict of interest statement for David Fisman has been corrected according to what was declared on his ICMJE form to read: “DF is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (2019 COVID-19 rapid researching funding OV4-170360), received consulting fees as a legal expert for Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario in August and September, 2020, related to COVID-19 transmission in schools, including the importance of ventilation and masks for kids as source control, and currently serves as a legal expert for the Ontario Nurses Association on their challenge to Ontario Directive 5, which restricts access to N95 masks for health-care workers except during performance of aerosol generating medical procedures.” This correction has been made to the online version as of May 13, 2021.