Well, it certainly lived up to its billing.Cambridge-based Biogen confirmed Monday they have warned both Manhattan investment bank Cowen & Co. and Boston’s State Room venue about company managers who have COVID-19 who may have come in contact with others.
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Biogen is one of the world’s largest biotech firms known for its work in Alzheimer’s.
Biogen has instructed employees and contractors in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Switzerland to work from home “until further notice.”
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About 175 Biogen managers coming from all over the world — “Yes, from Italy,” a company spokesman confirmed — gathered for a major meeting of the biotech giant held at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel Feb. 26-27. Italy, at that time, was beginning to see the virus spread.
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A Biogen “group dinner” was also held the night of Feb. 26.
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A manager from Tennessee and two from Indiana who attended the Biogen meeting have since tested positive for the coronavirus, according to health officials. And another, who went to a Florida conference afterwards, is also reportedly infected. And five other COVID-19 cases in North Carolina are now being traced back to the strategy session.
On March 2, a top Biogen manager and assistants then went to the 40th Annual Health Care Conference sponsored by Cowen & Co. held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. One of those in attendance from Biogen has since “tested positive” for COVID-19, a Cowen spokesman said.
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A Cowen & Co. human resources director told the Herald Monday she was aware of the coronavirus risk and a spokesman later said all 300-plus people who attended what was billed as the “event of the year when it comes to healthcare conferences” were notified after the fact about the Biogen link.
Boston Herald
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