the local stay-at-home order that became a superspreading event. The event charged up to $30,000 for tickets. In a followup article, MIT Technology Review revealed that after COVID-19 started spreading among attendees, Diamandis tried to sell them "fraudulent" treatments including inhaled amniotic fluid and ketamine lozenges, which a professor of law and medicine at Stanford University characterized as "quackery". The superspreading event was covered widely by publications including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. See also List of Greek Americans Notes External links X PRIZE Foundation website Testimony by Peter Diamandis to U.S. House Videos Peter Diamandis: Our next giant leap (TEDGlobal 2005) Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight (TED2008) Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future (TED2012) MIT Video: Peter Diamandis talks about the X PRIZE and future of space travel Open SSP08 Lecture: Peter Diamandis talks about the X PRIZE, Zero gravity, Rocket Race League SSP08 podcast Perimeter Institute: Peter Diamandis' lecture at the Quantum to Cosmos festival 1961 births Living people American chief executives Harvard Medical School alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni X Prizes Space advocates People from the Bronx American people of Greek descent Great Neck North High School alumni Life extensionists Singularitarians