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The old tech that could help stop the next airborne pandemic

Passengers wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of Covid-19 sit in the waiting room of a railway station, in Fuyang, China, in 2023. | Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read this, you’re almost certainly wearing or drinking from something they were used to produce — polyester fabric or plastic bottles, for example. If you brush your teeth with toothpaste or top your salad with bottled dressing, you’ve come into contact with these manmade ch...