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.”