Foreign Brief January 10, 2022
JP Morgan’s 40th Annual HealthCare Conference begins today virtually and will run through January 13th.
The conference is the largest healthcare investment symposium in the industry. It aims to connect industry leaders, emerging companies, tech innovators, the investment community and government administrators.
Originally slated to be held in-person in San Francisco, the conference moved online due to the recent surge of the Omicron variant. Recorded cases of COVID-19 topped 300 million globally Friday, although the actual count may be much higher due to underreporting of illness. The latest wave has stressed already overtaxed public health systems.
While biotech and innovation will be the central...