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The company behind this drug - Biogen - was also dumb enough to hold an international conference in downtown Boston during the beginning of the pandemic, and sp
by tapoxi 5y ago
The company behind this drug - Biogen - was also dumb enough to hold an international conference in downtown Boston during the beginning of the pandemic, and spread COVID throughout the state.
- encryptluks2 5y agoThat had their drug approved by the same FDA that you suddenly trust in that regard.
- EamonnMR 5y agoPeople where still working in offices and going to school then. Heck, I was at Pax East just before that went down. We where concerned about Corona, talked about it, but we still went along with tons of others.
- macintux 5y agoStill, you’d think a medical company would be a bit more sensitive to the topic. Other conferences had already been canceled. And in fact it may have had a massive impact. > Between 205,000 and 300,000 coronavirus cases across the U.S. can be traced back to the Boston conference, say the scientists, whose findings were published in the journal Science on Thursday. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-biogen-medical-conference-300k-covid-19-cases/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-biogen-medical-conferenc...