Former Biogen employee diagnosed with COVID-19 under investigation for defying travel ban, going to China

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[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.

[Skywise]

Although if we she want patient zero then it wasn’t “her” - but it was that biogen conference.” That did it.

[FamiliarFace]

Another thing, this article states that “Belmont native Jie Li”, but then it suggests she is a Chinese citizen. Is she an American citizen or a Chinese citizen?

[mewzilla]

If true, that Blacksburg, VA connection is interesting...

[FamiliarFace]

Maybe it didn’t suggest she is a Chinese citizen. I’m not sure now why I thought she was.

[outpostinmass2]

Experience
Biogen
Associate Director Biostatistics
Biogen
Feb 2019 – Present1 year 2 months

Sarepta Therapeutics
Associate Director
Sarepta Therapeutics
Jun 2018 – Feb 20199 months

Biogen
Biogen
3 years

Principal Biostatistician
Aug 2017 – Jun 201811 months

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Senior Biostatistician II
Jul 2015 – Aug 20172 years 2 months

Virginia Tech
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Jun 2014 – Jun 20151 year 1 month

Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
Jun 2011 – Jun 20143 years 1 month

Eli Lilly and Company
Research Scientist
Eli Lilly and Company
Jan 2010 – Jun 20111 year 6 months

Neuroscience, Oncology

Merck
Biometrician
Merck
May 2009 – Nov 20097 months

[ronnie raygun]

Give her life

[outpostinmass2]

Education
University of Iowa
University of Iowa
PhDStatistics
2009

University of Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of Science and Technology of China
University of Science and Technology of China
BSStatistics
2004

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

She picked a bad time to lose her company provided health insurance.

[niteowl77]

Ames Iowa? That’s interesting. Is she associated with the college there?

P;ossibly more impoetantly, was she associated with the National Animal Disease Lab there? The one that has the bad pathogens (Anthrax, etc).

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Ames, Iowa I think came up in the anthrax case.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Video on Patient 1, Benassi by George Webb:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3826701/posts?page=1

[JayGalt]

What happened to the student you caught spying at NASA?

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Qiu’s removal from Winnipeg deadly disease conference in July is suspicious too:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-escorted-from-infectious-disease-lab-amid-rcmp-investigation-1.5211567

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Qiu with Mobula of John Hopkins in picture.

[StolarStorm]

Not a damn thing. She was gathering old space shuttle specs from a secure room. But, the specs were way before final design and flawed. Frankly, even final design was flawed.

I was out of the process on the decision on what to do and the powers that be decided that it was of no consequence. Yes, what she took wasn't secret any more, but the fact that she did it should have caused her to be kicked out of the country. Hell, if I was off by 15 minutes on my task timesheet I could have been fined and fired by the auditors. FYI, I was working for NASA via LORAL contract at the time. Loral, the company that sold rocket tech to China.

[JayGalt]

Thanks for the followup. America needs to sharpen up.

[Diogenesis]

2020 - Jie Li of Belmont will infect Biogen, SF, and then other locales
before she flees back to China.

2019 - Biogen partners with Vir Biotechnology in 2019.

Plan is about corona virus(es).

Vir Biotechnology - founded by Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg and Gates Family Fund.
Associated with non-profit to push mandatory vaccines, and
Vir Biotechnology partners with Arch Partners [San Francisco] buys vaccine research from
Oregon HealthSU (which remained funded by Oregon taxpayers) as OHSU is given Vir Biotechnology stock.

2020 - Vir Biotechnology, Biogen, and Chinese Wuxi Biologics work together.

Vir Biotechnology - Stock up by more than 300%, as it announces it is working on monoclonal antibodies
for perhaps its very own, now transmitted around the world, coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2

[Secret Agent Man]

chinese would have executed her by firing squad.