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Letter: For the record – 18 April 2020

Published 15 April 2020

• The alcohol in wine evaporates faster than the water, and this creates a difference in surface tension and “legs” in the glass (4 April, p 16).

• Germán Martinez works at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Texas (4 April, p 15).

• Investigations continue into whether the initial level of virus that infects a person, rather than the average infectious dose, correlates with disease severity for covid-19 (4 April, p 8).

Issue no. 3278 published 18 April 2020

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