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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and gives a behind-the-scenes look at how our journalism comes together.It all started in January when Choire Sicha, then Styles editor for the New York Times, asked his team a question on…

Teams of researchers and volunteers were distributed across the transit systems of 60 cities, collecting thousands of samples from 2015 to 2017. They wiped a variety of surfaces including turnstiles, railings, ticket offices, and benches in…