A biotech conference held at a Boston hotel in late February that had already been blamed for the launch of coronavirus in eastern Massachusetts has now been.
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New research has revealed one east-coast conference resulted in a widespread coronavirus outbreak across the country and the world.
The
Boston Globereported 175 people attended a February Biogen conference at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel, and within one week, over 99 participants would test positive for COVID-19.
Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and other scientists researched and documented the data.
The
Sciencejournal published the study, estimating between 205,000 to 300,000 global cases can be traced back to the two-day event.
“The COVID-19 pandemic had a very direct and personal impact on the Biogen community as it has on many communities across the country and world,” Biogen said in a statement according to the news outlet.