Opinion: A pandemic, a funeral, and a chance to help heal the world
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference for biotech investors in San Francisco this January, I was huddling with my colleagues on Johnson & Johnson’s external global leadership team when our executives from Shanghai and Australia shared scuttlebutt about a virus disrupting J&J’s Asia operations. Another SARS epidemic, I told myself: a serious but regional outbreak.
Foreboding news closer to home suggested otherwise. An Episcopal priest in the nation’s capital tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Concern quickly spread through the congregation that parishioners were becoming sick — some very sick. My daughter Isabella’s elementary school, which is part of the National Cathedral and the Episcopal diocese, abruptly canceled classes four days before its scheduled spring break.
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