Coronavirus: CEO behind Buffett, Bezos health venture says US ‘death toll curve’ worse than China

CNBC March 27, 2020
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

Key Points

– The CEO behind the joint health-care venture between J.P. Morgan, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway is calling for a national “shelter-in-place” order as deaths from the coronavirus continue to rise in the United States.

– “Our death toll curve is now worse than when China was at the same stage,” Haven CEO Dr. Atul Gawande tells CNBC.

The CEO behind the joint health-care venture between J.P. Morgan, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway is calling for a national “shelter-in-place” order as deaths from the coronavirus continue to rise in the United States.

“Our death toll curve is now worse than when China was at the same stage,” Haven CEO Dr. Atul Gawande said Friday in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk...

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