Sony cancelling PAX East 2020 attendance due to coronavirus concerns

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shikamaru317 said:
Does this seem like a bit of an overreaction to anyone else? There was a single Coronavirus case reported in Boston, but that was on February 1st, PAX East begins on February 27th. No new cases have been reported in Boston since then, and 26 days is plenty of time for that one guy to fully recover and for symptoms to appear in any people that he interacted with, if he transmitted it to anyone else.

sales2099 said:
Given how little Boston is affected (as in almost nobody), I’m honestly feel this is just Sony saving some money.

There was a communications expo in Barcelona that got cancelled because the companies didn't want to risk going there. It would have attracted people from around the globe, and probably learning what happened in Singapore (where a simple business meeting in a hotel resulted in dozens of infected worldwide), decided it would be too risky to do that, even if Spain is much further away from the hotspot than Singapore was. That's also the reason why the INTA 2020 (International Trademark Association), which was supposed to be held in Singapore, has been cancelled and relocated to the US.