Biogen

More than a year after Biogen held multi-day management meetings that became a global superspreader event in the COVID-19 pandemic, newly released emails show the extent of the fear and confusion among the drug makers’ employees in those early days, as testing shortages, miscommunication from the state and changing guidance from health care professionals plagued the response. The emails also…

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.

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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.

A second person in Indiana has tested positive for COVID-19 after traveling to Boston to attend a biotech firm’s meeting, state officials said Sunday.

Two Boston hospitals have tested people for COVID-19 coronavirus and are awaiting results, which can be returned within 24 hours, state health officials say.

Two Boston hospitals are testing dozens of people who were at a hotel that hosted a conference now linked to several cases of coronavirus. City and state officials spoke about those cases at a briefing, telling the public to stay calm and take steps to protect themselves.