Chinese’ 2020 Lunar New Year had been completely ruined. A virus-like SARS, MERS had brought a fast whirring economy to a halt, causing billions of dollars’ loss every day. According to Chinese officials ’report on February 11, as of midnight on February 11, China ’s new coronavirus death toll rose to 1018. 43,099 cases were confirmed. (See the latest stats at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/). Models predicting the total number of being infected (including those not confirmed) will be around 250,000 in the next couple of days. To make it worse, we now know that many of the human sufferings during the process could have been prevented or avoided. Here is the summary of the main “pain points”
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Market Overview Women make up just about half the world’s population. While 80% of household healthcare spending decision is made by women, throughout history, women’s health has taken a backseat to men’s health, especially women’s needs beyond reproduction. The trend is changing. In the last 5 years, the investment in technology solutions for women’s health has finally reached $100 million a year. In addition to technology VC investment, we have seen heightened interest from major payers in partnering with groups of specialists(not just OB/GYNs) in developing new models of holistic delivery of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect a woman’s physical and emotional well-being. These health issues
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