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COVID billionaire fortunes fade as vaccines rolled out


February 24, 2021 | 5:19 pm
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Latex gloves on hand-shaped molds move along an automated production line at a Top Glove Corp. factory in Malaysia in 2020. PHOTO BY SAMSUL SAID/BLOOMBERG
IN THE HEALTH-CARE industry, the coronavirus pandemic led to big fortunes, fast. Now some of them are evaporating just as quickly.
Take Seegene, Inc., a maker of COVID-19 test kits, and Alteogen, Inc., a biotech with subcutaneous-injection technology. Their founders became billionaires as the shares surged last year. Fast forward a few months to the vaccine rollout, and they’ve lost their title after both stocks sank more than 41%, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. ....

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