Three Bio­gen staffers test pos­i­tive for coro­n­avirus in wake of Boston ho­tel meet­ing

The brew­ing coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic hit home for the bio­phar­ma in­dus­try Thurs­day evening.

Bio­gen $BI­IB has put out a state­ment say­ing that 3 em­ploy­ees who at­tend­ed a com­pa­ny meet­ing at a ho­tel in Boston have test­ed pos­i­tive for coro­n­avirus — the virus that broke out late last year in Wuhan, Chi­na and has now roiled the globe. And the big biotech added that a num­ber of at­ten­dees at that meet­ing have com­plained of flu symp­toms.

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