Posted on 03/20/2020 7:39:55 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
An employee of the biotech company at the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts is being criminally investigated after she defied the president’s travel ban and went to China. Of the 328 confirmed cases of the disease in Massachusetts, 30 percent of them are linked back to Cambridge-based Biogen after several employees at a conference held by the company at the Marriott Long Wharf tested positive for the virus and traveled across the country, further spreading the disease.
Belmont native Jie Li is being accused of knowing she was sick and of taking medication to bring down her fever in order to fly under the radar so she could travel to one of the countries under President Trump’s travel ban. While Li was not at the conference, workers say she had contact with people at the meeting and then traveled outside the country.
On Thursday, Chinese officials said for the first time since the outbreak began, they have had no new domestic cases but that doesn’t mean they haven’t had any imported cases.
Biogen representatives say that is just one of the reasons why Li, a statistician, was terminated by the company. Multiple reports by Chinese media say Li refused to disclose her exposure to the novel coronavirus to her airline and covered up her fever with drugs.
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Yes but she had important information to bring home.
If this were ‘data’...it could all be emailed to some Hong Kong residence.
She probably was carrying a sample of something.
The Chinese are investigating her. If they ask, extradite her.
In a comment to the Boston Globe, the biotech firm said it was unaware Li would be traveling to her homeland. Li has been fired this week from her position.
Li also did not tell the Belmont Health Department of her travel plans after the town was notified by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that she had tested positive for COVID-19 just days before, according to a press release from Wesley Chin, director of the Belmont Health Department, dated March 19.
In fact, Li had been quite unaccommodating with the town from the time earlier this month when Belmont Fire Department EMS crews responded to a call for a person experiencing flu-like symptoms.
After Li asked to be taken to a Boston-area hospital for testing, the EMS crew contacted Medical Control which advised them that Li could and should self-transport to the area hospital. When told of the decision. Li informed the EMS crew to leave and she would drive herself for care, according to the press release.
According to Chin, two days after the incident, the Health Department was notified by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that Li tested positive for COVID-19. With that information in hand, Chin tried to contact Li and her family via phone and text messaging, as well as, by going out to the home and knocking on the door. In each attempt, Chin did not receive a response.
Chin continued his attempts to make contact including reaching out to the healthcare provider that conducted the testing. But the testing agency was also unable to reach Li.
Then last week, as Chin still tried to notify Li, a resident informed him press reports from China spoke of a traveler from the USA who had entered the country wit the virus. The resident believed that person was Li. Chin then called the MDPH of the new information on Li who contacted MassPort – the agency that runs Logan International Airport – who began a contact investigation of all personnel that may have come in contact with Li.
It is not known when or if Li and her family will return to the United States. Currently, there is a ban on travel from China.
hong kong flu-ee
“Li also did not tell the Belmont Health Department of her
travel plans after the town was notified by the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health that she had
tested positive for COVID-19 just days before,
according to a press release from Wesley Chin,
director of the Belmont Health Department, dated March 19.
In fact, Li had been quite unaccommodating with the town
from the time earlier this month when Belmont Fire
Department EMS crews responded to a call for a person
experiencing flu-like symptoms.
After Li asked to be taken to a Boston-area hospital for
testing, the EMS crew contacted Medical Control which
advised them that Li could and should self-transport to the
area hospital. When told of the decision. Li informed the
EMS crew to leave and she would drive herself for care,
according to the press release.
According to Chin, two days after the incident, the Health
Department was notified by the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health that Li tested positive for COVID-19. With
that information in hand, Chin tried to contact Li and her
family via phone and text messaging, as well as, by going
out to the home and knocking on the door. In each attempt,
Chin did not receive a response. “
In a case that has many scratching their heads, a Belmont resident is under investigation by the Chinese government for flying with her family last week back to her homeland without informing the airline, Chinese officials that she had recently tested positive for the highly contagious coronavirus by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Jie Li, who lived with her husband and their son on Sharpe Road since 2015, landed in Bejing from Los Angeles on March 13, according to the Xinhua News Agency, the official media outlet of the Chinese government.
During the flight, Li, who is reportedly a Chinese citizen, began showing flu-like symptoms associated with the virus and was escorted to the rear of the plane for the remainder of the flight. Once on the ground, Li and her husband tested positive for the virus.
Since her arrival in China, Li has become a cause célèbre in the local news as she has been pilloried for allegedly “impeding the prevention of infectious disease” after her case was made public early in the week, according to an article in the Boston Globe.
She’s responsible for the initial outbreak in Indiana
Li is originally from the Chinese city of Chongqing but has been living extensively in the United States
She’s a spy
Interesting, she used to live in Carmel, Indiana
Belmont, MA • Blacksburg, VA • Carmel, IN • Iowa City, IA • Ames, IA
Wake County in North Carolina as well...
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article241025271.html
I don’t doubt you but how do you know that?
I certainly hope this Chinese garbage is permanently BANNED from ever entering the U.S. again. Just another example of the evil the Chinese bring upon the world.
I have to imagine the penalties for this type of behavior are much more harsh in China than the United States.
Poor decision by Ms Li.
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