Probably one of the 175 people who gathered in February at the Biogen Conference at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel to light the COVID-19 forest fire. Within a week, those in attendance began to fall ill. More than 99 will eventually test positive. By then, many of them had boarded the plane to board the ship or even attended Other conferences. And the spread just exploded from there.
According to Jacob Lemieux, lead author of the new study, published Thursday in the journal Science, 205,000 to 300,000 Kovid-19 cases across the country and around the world could be raised at the two-day Boston conference. The study estimates that some cases with a genetic link to the Biogen Conference were found in Florida, more than 1,000 miles from the waterfront lobby and banquets in Boston, which served as the perfect incubator for the virus eager to multiply.
Overall, the study estimates that the biogenesis conference is responsible for about 1.6 percent of cases in the United States since the epidemic began.
