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What on earth were they doing there to infect so many?

matwood 7y ago
When I go to industry conferences I have non-stop meetings with current customers, potential customers and partners. Every meal is some sort of meeting. Given the distributed nature of business today, when you do get everyone in the same place, you want to get some face to face meetings setup.
ergothus 7y ago
Probably just shaking a lot of hands. If it survives for 12 hours on surfaces, you only need 1 person to have poor hygiene to expose a LOT of people. And "normal" hygiene levels pass infection around plenty. I wash my hands when I go to the bathroom or before I prepare food. The rest of the time I'm just passing whatever I touch to whatever else I touch. I've given up on not touching my face. I'm sure I'm not the worst in these areas. As I understand it, you'd have this sort of infection rate with the seasonal flu if there wasn't some level of herd immunity, and you certainly have roughly this level of infection with the common cold - "Con crud" is a thing - it's just not much remarked upon as unexpected.
- pengaru 7y ago
  The dude on Joe Rogan's podcast made it sound like the covid spread is mostly just a matter of breathing the same air.
  - jjeaff 7y ago
    The CDC has also indicated that it can be spread through the air. But physical contact is more likely.
    - pengaru 7y ago
      It's annoying, there's conflicting information on this front, like this article about the CDC changing its recommendation on the type of face masks hospital personnel should use [0]. They're claiming you can't get it by simply breathing the same air, and saying surgical masks are sufficient. [0] https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article241103626.html https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/articl...
kortilla 7y ago
Touched a door handle
ilamont 7y ago
It opened with breakfast, at 7 a.m., in the Harbor View Ballroom of the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel, where a wide bank of windows offers a sublime view across the inner harbor, steel gray on a cloudy morning, to Logan Airport in the distance. 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. They greeted each other enthusiastically, with handshakes and hugs, and then caught up over breakfast, picking from plates of pastries and the self-serve hot food bar. They were there for two days of discussions and presentations about the future of the Cambridge-based, multinational biotech firm, which develops therapies for neurological diseases. It was the kind of under-the-radar gathering that happens in this region just about every week. Full article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/11/nation/how-biogen-leadership-conference-boston-spread-coronavirus/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/11/nation/how-biogen-lea...
- deleted 7y ago
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When I go to industry conferences I have non-stop meetings with current customers, potential customers and partners. Every meal is some sort of meeting. Given the distributed nature of business today, when you do get everyone in the same place, you want to get some face to face meetings setup.

ergothus 7y ago

Probably just shaking a lot of hands. If it survives for 12 hours on surfaces, you only need 1 person to have poor hygiene to expose a LOT of people. And "normal" hygiene levels pass infection around plenty. I wash my hands when I go to the bathroom or before I prepare food. The rest of the time I'm just passing whatever I touch to whatever else I touch. I've given up on not touching my face. I'm sure I'm not the worst in these areas. As I understand it, you'd have this sort of infection rate with the seasonal flu if there wasn't some level of herd immunity, and you certainly have roughly this level of infection with the common cold - "Con crud" is a thing - it's just not much remarked upon as unexpected.

pengaru 7y ago
The dude on Joe Rogan's podcast made it sound like the covid spread is mostly just a matter of breathing the same air.
- jjeaff 7y ago
  The CDC has also indicated that it can be spread through the air. But physical contact is more likely.
  - pengaru 7y ago
    It's annoying, there's conflicting information on this front, like this article about the CDC changing its recommendation on the type of face masks hospital personnel should use [0]. They're claiming you can't get it by simply breathing the same air, and saying surgical masks are sufficient. [0] https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article241103626.html https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/articl...

kortilla 7y ago

Touched a door handle

ilamont 7y ago

It opened with breakfast, at 7 a.m., in the Harbor View Ballroom of the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel, where a wide bank of windows offers a sublime view across the inner harbor, steel gray on a cloudy morning, to Logan Airport in the distance. 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. They greeted each other enthusiastically, with handshakes and hugs, and then caught up over breakfast, picking from plates of pastries and the self-serve hot food bar. They were there for two days of discussions and presentations about the future of the Cambridge-based, multinational biotech firm, which develops therapies for neurological diseases. It was the kind of under-the-radar gathering that happens in this region just about every week. Full article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/11/nation/how-biogen-leadership-conference-boston-spread-coronavirus/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/11/nation/how-biogen-lea...

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