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#COVIDisAirborne is a popular hashtag created on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to the lack of awareness that COVID is spread predominantly through aerosols. The first use of the hashtag was on March 31, 2020 in a tweet by Twitter user @Kimberl06724725. The #COVIDisAirborne hashtag was used sporadically from that point onward but didn't pick up traction until Nov 2nd, 2020 when the "#COVIDisAirborne" petition was created on the Change.org platform urging the WHO to "urgently promote broad awareness of aerosol transmission." Prior to the petition, there was a Slate article written by Michael A. Fischer entitled "The Coronavirus Is Airborne. Keep Saying It," which may have inspired the phrasing. 
The accompanying tweet was when the #COVIDisAirborne hashtag first went viral. Shortly thereafter, many scientists and engineers on Twitter such as Dr. Kimberly Prather, Dr. Jose-Luis Jimenez, Dr. Cath Noakes, Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding began using the #COVIDisAirborne in their tweets about the aerosol spread of COVID-19 (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4). The hashtag then exploded in popularity. As of October 2021, there are hundreds of tweets using the #COVIDisAirborne hashtag per hour. In 2021, Dr. Jonathan Eisen was "COVID is airbone" for Halloween. On Dec 5th, 2021, top science adviser at the WHO said "COVID is airborne" during an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan. Other COVID-19 related hashtags
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#COVIDisAirborne is a popular hashtag created on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to the lack of awareness that COVID is spread predominantly through aerosols. The first use of the hashtag was on March 31, 2020 in a tweet by Twitter user @Kimberl06724725. The #COVIDisAirborne hashtag was used sporadically from that point onward but didn't pick up traction until Nov 2nd, 2020 when the "#COVIDisAirborne" petition was created on the Change.org platform urging the WHO to "urgently promote broad awareness of aerosol transmission." Prior to the petition, there was a Slate article written by Michael A. Fischer entitled "The Coronavirus Is Airborne. Keep Saying It," which may have inspired the phrasing. The accompanying tweet was when the #COVIDisAirborne hashtag first went viral. Shortly thereafter, many scientists and engineers on Twitter such as Dr. Kimberly Prather, Dr. Jose-Luis Jimenez, Dr. Cath Noakes, Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding began using the #COVIDisAirborne in their tweets about the aerosol spread of COVID-19 (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4). The hashtag then exploded in popularity. As of October 2021, there are hundreds of tweets using the #COVIDisAirborne hashtag per hour. In 2021, Dr. Jonathan Eisen was "COVID is airbone" for Halloween. On Nov. 15th, 2021, an academic manuscript with "COVIDisAirborne" in its title was published: "#COVIDisAirborne: AI-Enabled Multiscale Computational Microscopy of Delta SARS-CoV-2 in a Respiratory Aerosol." On Dec 5th, 2021, top science adviser at the WHO said "COVID is airborne" during an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan. Other COVID-19 related hashtags
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