According to scientists at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who helped publish new studies on the spread of the virus in the Boston metropolitan area.
The Marriott Long Wharf hotel in Boston hosted a foreign convention for Biogen last February, when other occasions were canceled due to the threat of an looming pandemic, and until the end of March, another 99 people related to the assembly were confirmed. because of the virus.
In a new peer-reviewed review, researchers analyzed 772 instances of Covid-19 in 4 Massachusetts counties, adding that all infections were shown during the first week of the outbreak.
Although not included in the study, 3 scientists involved in the studies estimate that about 20,000 more people in Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk and Essex counties were likely inflamed as a result of the spread of the Biogen conference.
The outbreak occurred because an individual probably inflamed in Europe in February before traveling to Boston and spreading the virus to other participants, according to the study paper.
Researchers also write that the virus has been exported to several states, adding Virginia, North Carolina and Texas, and countries such as Australia, Sweden and Slovakia.
In total, Massachusetts recorded 116421 cases of coronavirus, with 8,717 reported deaths, according to state data.
“I am convinced that the scale of this occasion is tens of thousands,” said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and one of the researchers at the Boston Globe.
Governor Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency on March 10, and President Trump called for a national emergency on March 13. While cases of viruses were reported in January, in February it surprised the federal government when the cases exploded in March and led to the world’s worst epidemic. . Speaking at the conference, Baker said Tuesday: “He attests to the strength of this virus to move from one user to another, if other people wear masks, don’t walk away, don’t take seriously the fact that the basic strength of COVID-19 is their ability to move from one user to another,” according to NBC Boston.
Hotels have been part of other popular options such as meat-packing plants and retirement homes. The hotel industry, as well as other travel-related businesses, have been heavily affected by the pandemic. In componnticular, Marriott saw his profits consistent with having space fall by 90% in April, forcing the company to lay off two-thirds of its employees.
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