Can We Get a Vaccine Early? How the Rich Prepare for Outbreak
- Langone dials hospital experts, others hunt supplies or meds
- ‘It’s been a full-on war room,’ says head of concierge service
One investor may fly to Idaho with or without family. A doctor in a Colorado ski town is soothing wealthy clients who want a cure. And one New Yorker called up the hospital with his name on it.
Like everyone across the U.S., the rich are bracing for a deadly coronavirus outbreak. Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot Inc., watched President Donald Trump’s press conference and wondered if the media was overplaying the risk -- but he also made two well-placed phone calls from his winter outpost in North Palm Beach.