Coronavirus (Covid-19) Overview for Startup Founders

Thank you Elad for writing this very succinct and useful document. One thing you may want to include is what sort of symptoms there are and when they appear. I've found the preliminary NEJM case study helpful to me as Figure 2 clearly drawn: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191 Another document I've found helpful is the Chinese CDC document: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9... in understanding the aggregate behavior of Covid-19. You may know of better more recent primary source documents, so I look forward to seeing the updates in your overview.

Practical advice with links to more information. Additional updates will be posted on https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hYPrTMKfcEFux2rETlK07TAm...

Probably the single most important "prediction" based on past epidemics (e.g. 1919 Spanish Flu, HN1 in UK in 2009) is his point 5: Expect A Second Wave

"In many epidemics disease course follows two waves. In wave one, an initial infection happens followed by governments tightening movements, shutting schools, and in general decreasing the spread of the diseases. Controls are eventually relaxed (people need to work, kids need to go to school etc.) and then a few months later a second wave of the disease hits and infects a subset of the people who were not infected in the first wave. Eventually, enough people get sick, develop antibodies, and there is a strong enough herd immunity in the population to decrease future out breaks in size."

I think this is the most likely near term prognosis for China as it relaxes it's "non-pharmacological measures" that have discouraged spread.

What does this have to do with startups specifically? The advice here applies to any type of business/office.

> If your plan is to fundraise in 3-6 months, it might be worth considering doing it now.

That’s me... I sure wish my prototype/demo was farther along. It looks nice but is pretty feature lite