Biogen conference

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 conference led by the Cambridge-based biotech company Biogen. At the time, the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was widely known to be circulating. The World Health Organization had already declared the virus and the disease it caused…

A biotech conference held at a Boston hotel in late February that had already been blamed for the initial spread of the coronavirus in eastern Massachusetts has now been tied to hundreds of thousands of cases of the virus globally. The two-day Biogen conference at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel is responsible for infecting as many as 330,000 people…

More than 300,000 coronavirus cases have been linked to a Biogen leadership conference that was held in February at the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston, according to a new study.

Newly released emails from early March offer a behind-the-scenes look at Massachusetts public health officials attempting to get a handle on the beginnings of the coronavirus outbreak with one of the state’s largest drugmakers at its center. The emails, obtained through a public-records request, also show an internal debate at the state Department of Public Health about canceling large...

The Boston hotel that was linked to a coronavirus outbreak after it hosted a local biotech company’s conference earlier this year likely led to about 20,000 cases, according a new study. The cases can be linked to the conference held in February at Boston Marriott Long Wharf, which was shut down in mid-March, the Boston Globe reports. The research indicates...

A conference held by Biogen in February may have led to 20,000 coronavirus cases, according to a new study.

The Boston hotel that was linked to a coronavirus outbreak after it hosted a local biotech company’s conference earlier this year has reopened. Boston Marriott Long Wharf began welcoming guests back to the hotel Tuesday, a company representative said. “We are following public health authorities’ guidelines, and are undertaking enhanced cleaning protocols and operational steps within the hotel. The...

The Marriott Long Wharf hotel in Boston was closed indefinitely, days after it was determined that a company’s meeting there was the center of a coronavirus cluster.