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This has not been a good year for Cambridge's Biogen
By adamg on Thu, 12/17/2020 - 6:15pm
First Biogen has a conference at the Marriott Long Wharf that might have led to 300,000 Covid-19 cases across the country and around the world, including at the Pine Street Inn, and in Everett, Chelsea, Revere and Norwood. Now it's agreed to pay $22 million to settle federal claims that it paid kickbacks to get patients to ask for its multiple-sclerosis drugs.
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Sue their high wealth asses
Sue their high wealth asses and their clout huge super lawyers! Look what they did.
It doesn't imply the United
It doesn't imply the United States only, it also applies in the U.K, Duty have already been paid and attached to this email is a proof of payment. you're been charged with MPF not Duty you already paid for the duty 72 hours ago.
How is that a punishment?
They made more then $22 million from the drug.
A real punishment would be to invalidate any patents related to the drug.
What, did Biogen created covid-19 or something??
I think not... How much does China pay?
You ok?
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Read it again. Edit your
Read it again. Edit your reply.
Edit, Why?
Where did the folk at the conference get it from? Just curious!
No you're not
If you were really curious, you probably would have found and read the research papers on the conference (there have been at least two; here's one), which conclude the Biogen contagion was started by a traveler (or travelers) from Europe, not China.
There was one case imported into Boston from China - the first in the state, in fact. But the man who was infected, a UMass Boston student, knew enough to self quarantine himself when he returned from Wuhan and started feeling ill, so he didn't spread it to anybody else.
Love seeing some actual research
So much better than guessing and speculation
It doesn't matter where the Covid-19 infected student
It doesn't matter where the Covid-19 infected conference attendee came from--s/he still helped cause the Covid-19 virus to spread here in this country and throughout the world.