As lab retreat days go, this one wasn’t extraordinary, at least not at first.
The 60 members of the Barouch lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) gathered at Boston’s Museum of Science on Jan. 10, 2020, to look back at the year just finished and plan for the one ahead. Talk touched on reports of a pneumonia that had arisen in Wuhan, China, infecting about 40 people and killing one.
What worried lab leader Dan Barouch were accounts of possible asymptomatic transmission.
