COVID-19 pandemic making healthcare leaders billionaires

COVID-19 pandemic making healthcare leaders billionaires

COVID-19 has helped turn dozens of healthcare leaders into newly-minted billionaires, according to a report.

Fifty doctors, scientists and healthcare entrepreneurs earned billionaire status this year — the majority of whom are from China, where the virus first emerged in December 2019, Forbes reported.

Of the new cohort, there were 28 “pandemic billionaires” who hailed from China, the outlet reported.

Among the richest of the Chinese billionaires is Hu Kun, who is the chairman of medical device manufacturer Contec Medical Systems, the outlet reported.

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