Executive Briefing
Coronavirus and the consumer
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By Dan Frommer on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 9:30 am
Like (surely) many of you, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks increasingly fixated on the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, thinking about its potential effects on business and society, and how technology will play a role in this and future global health crises.
I’m writing this having just begun a two-week trip to Europe — let me know if there’s anything interesting going on in Paris or London — and wondering what New York will be like when I get back.
The truth — and what makes this different than something like a hurricane, where we can all picture what the range of destruction looks like, at least the TV version, and there’s a somewhat predictable cycle — is that we simply do not know what’s going to happen or where.
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