This February event resulted in 20,000 cases of COVID.

Researchers traced a specific COVID strain at a Boston-based conference earlier this year.


Only in March that coronavirus began to increase attention to covering in northeast and northeastern parts of the United States, but as you will remember, a huge part of these cases. From Covid in Massachusetts, one of the first American hotspots of the pandemic. Although this may not have been clear to clarify what made the state of the state of so horrible bay, we now have a glimpse of how the virus took over the Massachusetts.A new study followed about 20,000 COVID infections at a medical conference at Boston Long Wharf Marriott hosted at the end of February.

This little news comes fromA study of the Grand Institute of Harvard and Mit, which has not yet been examined by peers. Researchers collected hospital viruses, retirement homes, homeless shelters and other locations, which included almost all confirmed cases during the first week of the Boston Epidemic. . They are then sequenced and analyzed 772 comprehensive SARS-COV-2 genomes in the area to try to learn how coronavirus spreads.

The research determined that the more important event of the cerealization of the region was Boston-based biotechnology society.Annual Meeting of Biogen Leadership Long Wharf Marriott. The conclusion of 175 members of the company triggered a huge spread of the virus. Researchers have found a separate pressure in more than a third of patients associated with the conference and believe that this has caused more than 20,000 two-month infections. The study even traced the propagation of SARS-COV-2 specific strain to other states and countries as far as Singapore and Australia.

Jacob Lemieux, MD, the main author of the study and a doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital, saidThe New York Times that it was just a question of bad luck thatSomeone with the virus attended the conference-In environment conducive to its propagation - and that infected people then embedded planes to spread the virus further. "It's lucky game," Lemieux said. "If it were not this conference, it would have been another event."

The study highlights the effects of great reach ofSuperspreader interior eventsHowever, how much the public knew about the virus at the time and how it was transmitted from rich pharmaceutical frameworks to the most vulnerable residents of the city.

"We are not trying to blame," the co-author of the studyBronwyn MacInnis, MD, Director of Surveillance of Pathogens at the Large Institute, saidBoston World. "Some introductions [virals] whistle, other fires of light. The circumstances of this event - the fact that it happened so soon in the epidemic and the chosen moment ofwhere we were with Covid In the public consciousness - meant that he had a disproportionate effect. "

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Biogen has published a statement of August 25, noting how much they have more on the coronavirus since their Boston, NBC10 Boston Reports conference.

"On February 20, 2020 was almost a year and a half ago and was a period when the general knowledge of coronavirus was limited," read the statement. "We are closely adhering to the official guidelines that prevailed. We would never know each other knowingly in danger. When we learned a number of our colleagues were sick,We did not know that the cause was Covid-19But we immediately informed the public health authorities and took steps to limit propagation. "

For more information on other potential locations where contagion has become viral, checkThis beloved tourist destination has become a superspreader covider.


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