Health
Boston medical conference linked to as many as 300,000 COVID-19 cases in U.S. – CBS News
Super-spreader event in late February brought the virus to Australia, Slovakia and 29 U.S. states in following months.
Major events were among the first things to go when the novel coronavirus first started spreading around the world in February. Concerts, conferences and other gatherings were called off or went virtual in the spring.
In Boston, however, an elite medical conference on February 26-27 continued as planned, with more than 100 cases of COVID-19 tied to the event, according to contact tracers. But a team of scientists using genetic sequencing to track the continued spread of that strain of coronavirus…
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