We're looking at a new challenge. Who has had the vaccine? Did they get their second dose (where needed)? Is it time for a vaccine passport app? Continue Reading →
Coronavirus
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Most of the news this past weekend was about how close we are to an approved vaccine, which raises the question: Will you get vaccinated? Continue Reading →
CNBC is reporting that Amazon is planning to build its own diagnostic labs as it ramps up to test the bulk of its workforce for COVID-19 every two weeks. Workers would test themselves with nasal swabs, using a video for guidance, with a clinical professional supervising. Those testing positive will be referred to a third-party Continue Reading →
Shelly Palmer talks with Bianca Peters on Fox 5's Good Day New York about how restaurants are being charged for ordinary phone calls. You may be surprised. Original Airdate: May 26, 2020 Continue Reading →
Shelly & Ross chat with Chris Brandt, CMO of Chipotle Mexican Grill about how the organization's billion dollar digital business and how they made it happen. Plus, we get the answer to the most pressing Chipotle question: Why is Guacamole extra? Continue Reading →
Shelly Palmer talks with Kerry Drew about contact tracing technology - how it works, and why you might not like it on Fox 5's Good Day New York. Original Airdate: May 19, 2020 Continue Reading →
America is getting ready to reopen for business. Everyone has their own ideas about how this will work. On paper, or from a dispassionate conference room, it is easy to speak of “an acceptable level of risk.” COVID-19 is personal and, if you become infected, there are a wide range of possible outcomes. How safe is safe enough? Continue Reading →
The coronavirus pandemic is teeming with known unknowns. How many people have had it? How many people will get it? What is today’s R0 value in the top 50 markets? How will we assess the risk of bringing our employees back to the office? What impact will new consumer preferences have on our business? Will we have inflation or deflation? A recession or depression? As hard as these questions are, we’ve helped our corporate clients reframe and answer them in multiple ways. You can too. Here’s how. Continue Reading →
I was looking at my list of pre-pandemic theses and it is absolutely frightening how irrelevant most of them are to a post-pandemic future. Worrying about AI taking white-collar jobs, or the fate of commoditized packaged goods, or the adoption rates of IoT devices, or the potential deployment of 5G service seems meaningless if people are worried about being safe and wondering how they are going to put a roof over their heads and food on the table. So, it’s time for some new thinking, and an action plan for 2020 and beyond. Here's how. Continue Reading →
As a follow on to this week’s “I believe in science” theme, I will ask you to do three things today. I need you to watch a short video that explains Exponential growth and epidemics, another entitled, Simulating an epidemic, and then read an advance release copy of a CDC research paper entitled, “High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2.” It will officially be published in Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020. Continue Reading →