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Gene sleuths suggests wide virus spread from Boston meeting

by AP Science Writer
| August 25, 2020 4:27 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A meeting at a hotel in Boston last February may have ignited the spread of the pandemic virus to some 19,000 people in the area, a new study suggests.

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