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Please note that the administrative teams for the McGill School of Population and Global Health will be working remotely on Monday, October 7, 2024.
Please note that the administrative teams for the McGill School of Population and Global Health will be working remotely on Monday, October 7, 2024.
Dr. Scott Weichenthal, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is among the experts quoted by CBC.
"…Scott Weichenthal, a professor at McGill University's department of epidemiology, biostatistics, and occupational health who studies air quality, said the novel coronavirus is known to be airborne. "If you get a whole large number of people in an arena, indoors, yelling in close proximity to each other, the chances of having transmission is obviously elevated,'' he said."