Posted on 03/20/2020 9:18:15 AM PDT by RummyChick
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 in the state are believed to be linked to a conference held by the company in Boston in February.
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Here is the follow up.
So true story.
Biogen employee
Wonder if she is the one who infected so many people at that conference
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The time-line suggests she got the virus after the conference.
Most likely the employee who traveled from Italy infected the attendees.
Its good she’s imprisoned at China’s expense
later in the article it says she didnt go according to boston globe but was in contact with someone who did.
That biogen conference sure had a strong strain..and then it went to other states
By their own admission, can there be no doubt that China created a bioweapon that they fully intended to bring down our economy?
That’s so RACI— (MSM)
(smiles) — ME
Until this month, Li, who earned a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Iowa and taught a decade ago at Virginia Tech University with her husband, was working as the associate director for biostatistician at Biogen for a little more than a year.
While an investigation determined that Li did not attend the Biogen-sponsored sales meeting at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf in late February which has become ground zero for the coronavirus in Massachusetts, she had been in contact with fellow employees who were there.
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.
Interesting - thanks for the follow up...
She was in contact with someone after the conference.
Typhoid Jie, inject her with ebola an send her on her way, just a gift from the American people
I wonder if people will finally figure out what a villainous country China is, due to its culture.
I read weeks ago that folks coming from China were on the “honor system.”
Immigration just asked them if they’d been to Wuhan.
Let’s go back and see who lied and prosecute more. Ban them from ever entering our country.
that does not mean she 1. lies
or 2. say people BEFORE the conference
as others have noted in the timeline.
do you work for biotech, too?
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Thank you for posting. Good morning.
I read somewhere that the Chinese media is touting the Party’s ability to control the disease and effect cures (presumably with quinine). This lady probably went back because she believed the bug was under control in China, and figured it would be no trouble for them to treat her problem.
The Chinese government is making a big deal of this because it’s lying about the disease not being a problem in China. They are still getting new cases. They’re just telling “local” officials not to report them.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3826322/posts
Watch for the clip of trump absolutely going off on reporter. It will show up soon.
He was mad.
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