- Jackie Ross
- 2 min read
Hi Gang,
In a prior issue, I asked about ways we can identify which hospitals have the greatest need for support from the community. While I don’t have the perfect answer, I have a great one. I spoke with a member of the executive team at Nextdoor, an app that builds connections and facilitates exchanges in neighborhoods. The Nextdoor Blog chronicles inspiring efforts of citizens around the country, and the app itself has a built-in ‘Help Map’ that enables you to offer help to neighbors and neighbors to ask for help. The African proverb, ‘It takes a village’ has never been more accurate.
Speaking of neighbors, I am so grateful for mine. They pass tools over the fence, offer to pick things up at the store, howl with me at 8 pm, and host socially distant dance parties. While we all want to get back to ‘normal,’ whatever that looks like in the future, we are connecting with each other in such meaningful ways right now – at home, at work, and with our community. We are actually a lot less socially distant than we used to be. I hope when it’s safe to get closer again, we don’t grow farther apart.
Resources & News of Interest
This touching post from Gov. Cuomo shares a letter from a farmer in Kansas. His wife is sick and he is aging, but he sent one of his five masks to help a healthcare worker in NY.
Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say - encouraging news!
STAT: Covid-19 is forcing smaller biotechs to cut spending and change financing plans
From the Community
The New Era of Purpose-Led Leadership in Pharma – my colleague Dana Krueger shares 10 lessons we’ve learned from purpose-led executives (applies to all businesses)
Becoming chess players: Q&A with Subhanu Saxena – Dana has been busy 😊 Here she interviews the Head of Life Science Partnerships, Europe for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Food Fight – send me yours!
Today’s winner is Onaiza Jilani Cadoret-Manier, EVP, Chief Corporate Development and Commercial Officer at Ionis Pharmaceuticals. This is deadly…
Mom of the chefs’ comments: “My two teenage kids made dinner from scratch. The nachos used 2 pounds of beef, 8 avocados and homemade, deep-fried tortilla chips that used a gallon of oil for frying. This, along with the homemade brownies with a 1 pound of chocolate, does not help no matter how many burpees I do!”
A Little Levity
Trying to participate in your kids’ Fortnite games? This is one of my favorite SNL skits
Be well,
Jackie