China investigating ex-Biogen employee who fled there while sick with coronavirus

Posted on AllSides March 19th, 2020
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A statistician who was working in Massachusetts for Biogen Inc.,the sponsor of the now infamous Boston meeting at the epicenter of the state’s COVID-19 outbreak, is being investigated in Beijing for allegedly flying to her native China while sick, not disclosing her exposure to coronavirus to the airline, and covering up her fever with drugs, according to reports in Chinese-based media.

Chinese authorities are considering if Jie Li, of Belmont, who was associate director of biostatistics for Biogen, according to an online profile, broke the law by impeding the prevention...

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