‘Out of control’: New emails show fear, confusion at Biogen after superspreader meetings

More than a year after Biogen held multi-day management meetings that became a global superspreader event in the Covid-19 pandemic, newly released emails show the extent of the fear and confusion among the drugmakers’ employees in those early days, as testing shortages, miscommunication from the state and changing guidance from health care professionals plagued the response. They also show that state public health officials were discussing the probability of community transmission days before acknowledging it publicly.