Jeremy’s Early Coronavirus Warning That Woke Up Wall Street/ WSJ
Before Covid-19 upended American life, the head of a $33 billion U.K. foundation told a collection of money managers how bad it was going to get. The alarm spread through the worlds of finance and business.
Jeremy Farrar, director of the $33 billion Wellcome Trust, used a Jan. 31 call with money managers to deliver a clear warning about the dangers of the new coronavirus. Here he is pictured at a 2019 World Economic Forum event in South Africa.
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