{"id":1565,"date":"2021-05-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2023-11-26T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:01:50","slug":"the-60-year-old-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-60-year-old-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early one morning, Linsey Marr tiptoed to her dining room table, slipped on a headset, and fired up Zoom. On her computer screen, dozens of familiar faces began to appear. She also saw a few people she didn\u2019t know, including Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization\u2019s technical lead for Covid-19, and other expert advisers to the WHO. It was just past 1&nbsp;pm Geneva time on April&nbsp;3, 2020, but in Blacksburg, Virginia, where Marr lives with her husband and two children, dawn was just beginning to break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early one morning, Linsey Marr tiptoed to her dining room table, slipped on a headset, and fired up Zoom. On her computer screen, dozens of familiar faces began to appear. She also saw a few people she didn\u2019t know, including Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization\u2019s technical lead for Covid-19, and other expert advisers to the WHO. It was just past 1&nbsp;pm Geneva time on April&nbsp;3, 2020, but in Blacksburg, Virginia, where Marr lives with her husband and two children, dawn was just beginning to break.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-60-year-old-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[379,18,35,380,97,309,14,283],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerosols","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-droplet-dogma","tag-pandemic-response","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}