Ven­rock sur­vey shows grow­ing recog­ni­tion of coro­n­avirus toll, wan­ing con­fi­dence in ar­rival of vac­cines and treat­ments

When Ven­rock part­ner Bryan Roberts went to check the re­sults from their an­nu­al sur­vey of health­care lead­ers, what he found was an im­print of the pan­dem­ic’s slow ar­rival in Amer­i­ca.

The ven­ture firm had sent their form out to hun­dreds of in­sur­ance and health tech ex­ec­u­tives, in­vestors, of­fi­cials and aca­d­e­mics on Feb­ru­ary 24 and gave them two weeks to fill it out. No Amer­i­cans had died at that point but the coro­n­avirus had be­come enough of a glob­al cri­sis that they in­clud­ed two ques­tions about the virus, in­clud­ing “To­tal U.S. deaths in 2020 from the nov­el coro­n­avirus will be:”.

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