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JPMorgan’s Big Healthcare Conference Goes Virtual

Editorial Board Published December 15, 2021
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JPMorgan & Chase’s New York headquarters. The bank’s annual healthcare conference will be virtual this year.

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By

David Benoit

and

Charley Grant

Updated Dec. 15, 2021 9:58 am ET

JPMorgan Chase JPM -0.75% & Co. is moving its big annual healthcare conference in San Francisco to a virtual setting, telling participants the spreading Omicron variant of Covid-19 had made the in-person gathering too risky.

The bank’s annual gathering is one of the biggest events for global healthcare professionals and CEOs, and it is often full of deal making. This year’s event, scheduled for the middle of January, will be the 40th version. The move comes after several biotechnology companies pulled out of planned in-person appearances, which were first reported on Tuesday by Stat News.


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“The health and safety of our clients and employees is of the utmost importance and given the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, we have made this decision,” the bank said in an email to participants.

The bank had already pushed back against concerns about rising crime in San Francisco but found it harder to pull in hundreds of attendees who oversee the world’s healthcare when rising Covid cases were forcing countries to implement new travel restrictions and companies to pause plans to reopen their offices.

“We were not only hopeful to meet in-person but also understand how much this conference means to the San Francisco community, which we fully support,” the bank said in the email.

Early data already suggest that the Omicron variant may be better at evading vaccine-generated antibodies, and a lot of that has to do with what’s happening at a molecular level. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains.

Some executives slated to attend were concerned about the industry setting a bad example by gathering in person with Covid cases on the rise, and investor interest was lighter than in previous years, according to people familiar with the matter.

Many in the industry were wary of a repeat of the February 2020 Biogen Inc. meeting in Boston that spread Covid to thousands of people in the U.S. and abroad.

The JPMorgan event typically draws hundreds of healthcare companies and thousands of attendees.

The bank had been telling companies it wasn’t going to allow virtual presentations and that anyone looking to be a part of the conference would have to attend in person.

The highly contagious variant Omicron is disrupting corporate America’s attempts to return to normal.

JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon had been among the more aggressive about bringing people back to the office and traveling. But earlier this week, the bank said anyone going into its New York offices would have to be vaccinated.

The Omicron Variant

Write to David Benoit at [email protected] and Charley Grant at [email protected]

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Appeared in the December 16, 2021, print edition as ‘JPMorgan Health Talk Goes Virtual.’

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