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Default Coronavirus outbreak at Biogen meeting in Boston

On Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 10:54:34 AM UTC-5, wrote:
This is a little unsettling. Biogen is a huge international biotech
company. They held a meeting at the Marriott Long Wharf hotel last
week involving about 175 members of their senior management team,
including the chief executive, chief financial officer, and head of
research and development.

So far, five Massachusetts residents and three people from out of
state who attended the meeting have tested positive for Covid-19.
Additionally, an Indiana resident who was in Boston at the same time
has come down with the virus. Two of the people from the meeting who
tested positive are from Europe,

If nothing else this illustrates how incredibly contagious the virus
is, and how likely it is to become widespread in this country. No
doubt it will touch all of us in some way.


We've had reservations next weekend at Chateau Elan resort in Braselton, GA for a couple of months now. My wife's sister and her husband and her parents (80+) were all going. Her parents backed out this morning because of the virus scare. We are still going.

When calling the resort to cancel their room, the guy shared that they have had a huge number of cancellations of rooms and corporate events. Sounds like we'll have the place to ourselves.

Meanwhile, my company has announced that we won't be attending the next two large expos that were planned, one a huge one in Vegas. This virus will have a huge ripple effect for quite a while.

Meanwhile I saw a post from a friend that the local Costco was out of toilet paper. Really?