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It is indeed “surprising” that it has taken researchers and politicians a year and a half to conclude that “the general consensus is now that aerosol transmission is more important than hand or contact transmission” (Covid discoveries: what we know now that we didn’t know before, 6 August). The experience of being infected through choral singing in March 2020 only served to confirm my mother’s mantra: “Coughs and sneezes spread diseases, trap your germs in a handkerchief.”
Martin Willis
Malvern, Worcestershire

• Before too much money is spent on the trial (UK launches £4m fund to run fibre optic cables through water pipes, 9 August) it would be prudent to consider what would happen when a valve has to be closed.
Steve Simmons
Blackwater, Hampshire

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Originally posted in the guardian.