Tech companies were ahead of Coronavirus curve, but Americans didn't care

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/25/tech-ahead-of-covid-curve-at-every-stage.html

Tech was ahead of Covid curve at every stage, but it couldn't bring the rest of us along

• Tech companies were the first to cancel events and send workers home because of Covid concerns in early 2020.
• Now they're the first to make work from home permanent as the pandemic accelerates into 2021.
• That's no surprise since the pandemic also benefited tech companies the most, like Zoom.
• But they couldn't get the rest of Americans to care as much and work together to suppress the spread.

First to benefit from the new normal
The tech world's quickness to react to the pandemic may not be surprising because they were best positioned to make the shift to a more digital world and to benefit from the new status quo.

The biggest tech companies in the world will come out of the pandemic even stronger.

What was tech behind on?
The tech industry's early ambitions to help attack the coronavirus itself didn't exactly pan out. Google and Apple's contact tracing tech, for example, never got popular. Instead, what is lifting hopes and markets this month is the established science of vaccination.

Coronavirus misinformation may have been the one thing tech companies didn't get ahead of fast enough.

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