When scientific advisers informed the White House that the novel coronavirus might be spread not just in sneezes and coughs but by talking or even breathing, it was the result of a new, rapid response effort that matches the country’s finest brains with a daunting array of evidence.

It demonstrates how the business of turning science into policy has been turned upside down in a matter of weeks as the world battles a deadly pandemic.

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