Posted: Dec 13, 2020 1:37 PM AT | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
Nova Scotian Bronwyn MacInnis was senior author of a study tracking a COVID-19 superspreading event in Boston(Stephen Schaffner) comments
A scientist originally from Nova Scotia was part of a Massachusetts-based team that used genetic fingerprinting to track the devastating spread of COVID-19 from a single event.
A Biogen corporate conference held at a Boston hotel in February led to an estimated 245,000 infections in 29 U.S. states and several countries around the world by Nov. 1.
Bronwyn MacInnis, director of pathogen genomic surveillance at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., led a team that used genetic fingerprinting to track the spread of the virus from the Boston conference.
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