Chinese manufactured flu virus spawns instant Chinese billionaires and others across the globe. Manufacturing a problem then selling a solution is very smart business.
Forbes released its 35th annual world’s billionaire rankings this week, and not even a global pandemic tempered the explosion of new wealth, with a new billionaire roughly ever 17 hours in 2020.
Forty of those newcomers made their wealth fighting Covid-19, with Hong Kong’s Li Jianquan and family, owners of Winner Medical, topping the list at $6.8 billion thanks to producing billions of masks and millions of protective overalls and gowns for healthcare workers fighting the virus. Also on the list were vaccine manufacturers Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna at $4.3 billion, and Uğur Şahin, cofounder of BioNTech at $4 billion.
InnovationRx: New Covid-19 Billionaires (forbes.com)
