Blog: From Crisis Comes Opportunity in Online Health Care

Liu Junling is chairman and CEO of 111 Inc., a digital and mobile health group in China.

The nationwide fight against Covid-19 has had many heroes, from frontline medical workers to mobilized soldiers and police who have had to manage the quarantine of an entire province and one of China’s major cities — Wuhan, the “Chicago” of China for its roles in transport and industry. The true heroes, of course, are the ordinary people — the “laobaixing” or “old hundred names” — who are in quarantine and suffering fear and isolation in order to protect their loved ones and the world.