We attended the 9th Annual SVB Leerink Global Healthcare Conference in New York from February 25 to 27, 2020, which hosted over 200 healthcare companies. As the spread of COVID-19 hit the markets this week, it was also the number one topic at the conference.
Implications for sales, supplies and products, as well as measures to control and contain the outbreak were widely debated. Everyone we talked to acknowledged that the virus outbreak has and will continue to have an impact but the important unanswered question is: how severe will it really be?