While many factors have surely contributed to such a significant change, health and business experts in the region point to the role that the local tech industry has played from the virus’s earliest days. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Traffic is light in downtown Seattle on 6 March 2020 on the day Amazon joined Microsoft in asking its workers to stay home. Although much of the initial effort from the local tech industry was done with an eye toward the immediate community, the impact tended to have a much broader reach. One place to look to as the pandemic continues to play out will be the relationships between the tech and health industry. “That, I think, really helped the Seattle community come together, work together and solve problems, you know, that were important to solve.”

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2021 09:00 UTC