The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a well-known schmooze-fest of tech leaders from around the world — an ideal environment for a virus to spread, particularly if highly infectious people were present.
Speculation has been whipping around social media for months that the virus might have incubated during CES and was sprayed worldwide when attendees traveled home. One attendee's disclosure of his test result to APM Reports is the first clear evidence that the virus was likely circulating at the conference.
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