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1 Year Later: The Biogen ‘Superspreader’ Conference That Sparked Boston’s Coronavirus Outbreak – NBC Boston
One year ago this weekend, more than 100 people from around the world convened at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel for a biotech leadership nbcboston.com/news/coronavir…
conference led by the Cambridge-based biotech company Biogen.

The biotech conference would quickly become a superspreader event, launching the COVID-19 outbreak in eastern Massachusetts and causing as many as 330,000 cases of coronavirus worldwide, according to a study
published in the journal Science.
According to the study, the conference was responsible for introducing more than 120 new coronavirus cases into the Boston area. More than a quarter of the introductions accounted for an estimated 85% of cases, the study found.
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