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A medical conference held in late February in Boston may have caused up to 300,000 coronavirus infections, new study finds
Business Insider ^ | 13 Dec 2020 | Connor Perrett

Posted on 12/13/2020 5:50:45 PM PST by blueplum

A Biogen medical conference in late February led to between 205,000 to 300,000 COVID-19 infections from February to November of this year, according to a study in the peer-reviewed journal Science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science....

...In the four counties that comprise the Boston region, 51,000 - about half - of the cases of COVID-19 until the beginning of November had genetic markers that linked the cases to the conference, according to the report. The virus also spread from the conference to other states at the beginning of...

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 202002; bcw; biogen; biogenconference; boston; ccpvirus; china; chinesespies; chinesewoman; covid; covid19; genetictracing; isolatedincidents; jieli; pandemic; spies; spooks; superspreaders
Study:Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Boston highlights the impact of superspreading events
1 posted on 12/13/2020 5:50:45 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

May have.

Or not.


2 posted on 12/13/2020 5:53:37 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: blueplum

Business insider, less accurate than a broken watch...


3 posted on 12/13/2020 5:56:59 PM PST by Professional ( )
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To: JennysCool

FEEL THE IRONY! Oh well, I’m sure that 99% of those that contacted it are still alive. Big deal!


4 posted on 12/13/2020 6:07:15 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Professional

but it’s not about the BI, it’s about the study. And maybe very naughty conference attendees who didn’t wash their hands before dinner. But one thing’s for sure - it’s not Trump’s fault.


5 posted on 12/13/2020 6:16:39 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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I will say it caused more than 300k.

That conference was the cause of the breakout in Indiana. At least the known break out. Could have been there before that but the conference started the rapid known breakout.

I think Indiana had several people that got it from that conference.

So if you extrapolate - there had to have been more States that got infected from that conference.


6 posted on 12/13/2020 6:44:44 PM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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NEWS • HEALTH / MARCH 8, 2020
Second COVID-19 Case Identified In Indiana, Both Stem From Boston BioGen Conference

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/second-covid-19-case-identified-in-indiana-both-stem-from-boston-biogen-conference


7 posted on 12/13/2020 6:44:44 PM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress; RummyChick

it’s nice to be young and genetically strong, as most Anglos are.

OTOH, if Gottlieb is even remotely correct, and I’m not saying he is, just pointing out that there is still a very vulnerable population that have higher risk: “ ,,, There [are] 50,000 new infections in nursing homes every week right now, probably more than that. And we know 20% of people in the nursing homes who are infected will succumb to the infection....”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-pushing-delay-in-nursing-home-vaccinations/ar-BB1bTwO9?ocid=msedgntp


8 posted on 12/13/2020 7:33:44 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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My son and his wife both work for Biogen in NC...someone brought it back to NC after this conference and they’ve been working from home ever since. Fortunately they’ve both been fine and I have anew Coronial grandson :)


9 posted on 12/13/2020 8:33:00 PM PST by LizzieD
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To: RummyChick

That was the conference after which a chinese woman {who reminds me of Fang Fang} took a bunch of pills to suppress her fever and fled the conference and the US


10 posted on 12/13/2020 9:00:35 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Woman Who Flew From U.S. to China For Covid-19 Treatment Faces Jail Time
3/21/2020, 7:05:33 AM · by Helicondelta · 23 replies
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 20 March 2020
A former associate director of a US biotechnology company is facing up to seven years in prison in China after allegedly hiding her coronavirus symptoms and flying from Los Angeles to Beijing in hopes of receiving treatment. The Chinese national, 37, gobbled down anti-fever medicine at LAX to suppress her high temperatures before boarding the 13-hour flight back to her homeland with her husband and son, Chinese authorities said. The mother-of-one, named as Jie Li, worked for Biogen, a multinational firm at the center of an outbreak of the coronavirus in Massachusetts. Around 30 per cent of the confirmed cases...


11 posted on 12/13/2020 9:05:52 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: LizzieD

yay on the new baby ! Congrats!


12 posted on 12/13/2020 9:24:14 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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More hiding of the virus’s spread from NY to the rest of the US.
Cuomo must be protected!


13 posted on 12/13/2020 9:26:11 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: blueplum

Oh yes, definitely remember this. This conference was one of the dumbest moves including people who had been travelling internationally to COVID infected areas. It helped seed clusters all over the country to really get things ramped up.


14 posted on 12/13/2020 10:30:28 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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