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But this was misinterpreted as a zero by a different research group down the line. And the narrative of an out-of-control (and foreign, and flamboyant) super-spreader was just just too delicious for the media to resist.

Full doc here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jamd...

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Julie DiCaro's avatar Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social
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Oh damn. Thanks for sharing. I pretty much got my early history of the epidemic from And The Band Played On.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor's avatar Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social
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Saved it for later, but for some reason the uploader is prejudiced against Canuckians so I'll have to be sneaky.

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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Gaƫtan's family has never publicly commented on anything, but have been known to say to friends, "He did everything he could to help the researchers, and this is the thanks he gets." Which is incredibly sad.

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Patrick Denny's avatar Patrick Denny @atomicnoggin.bsky.social
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There was a Canadian made musical comedy in the 90's that debunked the super spreader theory called "Zero Patience"

m.imdb.com/title/tt0108...

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