A California tech executive has admitted his "COVID Immunity Bubble" turned into a superspreader event, infecting over two dozen conference-goers in the process.
Feb 17, 2021
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At least two dozen attendees of a conference held in California by the co-founder of a coronavirus vaccine company, of all things, have tested positive for COVID-19.
The annual summit hosted by Peter Diamandis was held last month for a paid-membership group called Abundance 360. The first plan was to hold the event virtually at a hotel in L.A., but instead it was shifted to the offices of XPrize
Foundation (Diamandis’ nonprofit) in Culver City.
Diamandis cofounded Covaxx and says that the company is “focused on rapidly developing a multitope peptide-based vaccine for COVID-19.” His XPrize Foundation also started up a program that offered $6 million in prize money for a “six-month competition to develop faster, cheaper, and easier to use COVID-19 testing methods at scale.”
Humbled and pained : Calif. tech exec s indoor conference becomes COVID superspreader
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A California tech executive has admitted his COVID Immunity Bubble turned into a superspreader event, infecting over two dozen conference-goers in the process.
In a blog posted on his personal website, Peter Diamandis, who co-founded several space companies and the Silicon Valley business incubator Singularity University, says he didn t want to nix the in-person portion of his yearly business conference. Instead, despite California s guidance against doing so, he put together a hybrid event for his annual Abundance 360 Summit, with some attendees watching sessions virtually and a number flying in to attend in person.
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