Approximately 100 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a Biogen corporate meeting, as reported by local media station WCVB.

Earlier this month, as COVID-19 began to spread across the United States, three Biogen employees who attended an off-site corporate meeting at a hotel in Boston first tested positive for COVID-19, the virus caused by the novel coronavirus. There were about 175 people who attended the conference, the company confirmed. None of the first three live in Massachusetts but all had attended the management conference. Two of the employees were from Europe and the third was from Tennessee. That employee from Tennessee has been identified as Chris Baumgartner, who went public on Facebook, The Tennessean reported. Baumgartner is the vice president, East General Manager for Biogen. According to hisLinkedIn profile, he joined the company in February after spending nearly two years as an area business director for Sage Therapeutics.

Following the reports of the first three cases, more Biogen employees began to test positive for COVID-19, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization last week. After 15 employees who attended the meeting were diagnosed with the virus, Biogen issued a work-from-home order to its employees in the Bay State, North Carolina and Switzerland. Several of those employees are known to have transported the virus from the conference back to their home states, including at least five in North Carolina, according to the News & Observer.

Biogen isn’t the only company to be impacted by COVID-19. Arie Belldegrun, the former head of Kite Pharma and current