Posted on 03/20/2020 8:30:04 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
About 175 executives were expected at the Biogen leadership conference on Feb. 26. Employees from Biogen locations around the United States and the world reunited with colleagues they don’t often get to see.
Within days, though, the Biogen conference would be infamous, identified as an epicenter of the Massachusetts outbreak of Covid-19, with 70 of 92 coronavirus infections in the state linked to the conference as of Tuesday night, including employees and those who came into contact with them. That doesn’t include a cascade of individual cases in Tennessee, North Carolina, Indiana, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and Norway, and suspected cases in Germany, Austria, and Argentina. Guests at the Long Wharf conference included people from Italy, a country where the virus had spread, but not people who had been to China, where it originated late last year, he said.
After a day of highly technical presentations on Wednesday, Feb. 26, many of the Biogen attendees gathered at 6:30 p.m. at the State Room, a few blocks away at 60 State St., for dinner and awards. Another person familiar with the events, who asked to remain anonymous because they are not cleared to speak on the issue, confirmed that Biogen’s chief medical officer first contacted the state public health department the morning of March 3. Biogen told DPH that day that a cluster of people who attended the conference were ill, according to the unnamed person.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
That same day, a “significant number" of people from Biogen — though still fewer than 10 — came to the Emergency Department at MGH asking for coronavirus tests, said Dr. Paul Biddinger, chief of the division of emergency preparedness at the hospital. MGH had not been informed previously of the Biogen meeting or that people had been exposed to the virus.
“There was concern that there may be many more coming,” Biddinger said. Too many Biogen walk-ins, the hospital feared, could disrupt care for other patients.
All the Biogen people got a medical evaluation but many did not have symptoms that would rise to an emergency; they just wanted testing, Biddinger said.
“For each person, we talked to [Department of Public Health] staff about these patients and whether or not they meet testing criteria,” he said. “Some were tested and some were not.”
Some of the Biogen walk-ins became “very frustrated” that they couldn’t get a test. “There were some challenging discussions,” Biddinger said.
At 10 a.m. on March 5, senior Biogen leadership held a call with people who were at the Boston conference, reporting that three attendees had tested positive for Covid-19 outside of Massachusetts.
It’s more likely they caught the virus on their airline flights, than at the conference.
Chinese version of typhoid Mary took them down
Super spreader
https://www.boston25news.com/news/biogen-employee-diagnosed-with-covid-19-under-investigation-defying-travel-ban-going-china/AKEUFMKHWBEEXDLZGHDPH4VZSU/?fbclid=IwAR2d-v8WzjmPsh1NsX75Flu7DlysbmBgpV5yKr0VPiCnffBrv7Ou4F7E-ms
>>Some of the Biogen walk-ins became “very frustrated” that they couldn’t get a test. “There were some challenging discussions,” Biddinger said.
Probably because the tests were being used for more important people, like NBA Players, celebrities and politicians instead.
My spouse is on the front-line right now as a RN, and can’t get a test to make sure she is not infecting the rest of the family as she continue to show up each day for work treating sick people...but we can all rest easy to know that young, elite athletes - the people least at risk of actually being knocked down by the virus, are using up the tests instead.
would you be surprised that the terrorist-woman
who brought to this to Belmont, America
for Biogen and Xi worked, and published, on SARS?
Karma hugs biotechnology oligarchs.
that was my thought all along, she was a Chinese spy and fled back to China as soon as things went south.
She wasn’t patient zero at Biogen. She caught the virus from another Biogen employee who attended the conference. Patient zero was from Italy.
BS.
she did not go to the conference but infected
those who did, before the meeting.
WHAT WAS/IS BIOGEN DOING WITH SARS?
Diogenesis wrote:
“BS.
she did not go to the conference but infected
those who did, before the meeting.
WHAT WAS/IS BIOGEN DOING WITH SARS?”
Good question.
BS.
she did not go to the conference but infected
those who did, before the meeting.
WHAT WAS/IS BIOGEN DOING WITH SARS?
The timeline of the conference and when she contracted the virus suggests otherwise.
Not sure she did that work for Biogen as she also worked for two universities, one in Iowa at Ames [ja, Ames as in anthrax] and the other in Virginia. Biogen was only her most recent job and she hasn’t been there very long.
There was another conference in early March:
another held from March 2 to March 4 by Cowen and Company at the Boston ...
Several of the Biogen executives from the Long Wharf conference also attended a health care event hosted by Cowen and Co. March 2-4, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, including CEO Michel Vounatsos and other top officials.
Cowen has since warned attendees of its event that Biogen informed Cowen that multiple individuals at the March 2 event have tested positive for Covid-19.
She knew she had a fever, took meds to knock it down so she could FLY to CHINA against US sanction....and then flew BACK
She is being criminally charged
She stayed in China.
Oh, so they fired her but it doesnt matter
Not a US citizen
Going to jail in China
She may have infected another 60 people in China
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8134661/Chinese-woman-faces-seven-years-prison-hiding-coronavirus-symptoms.html
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