Photonics Market Feels Impacts of COVID-19 at Many Levels
PITTSFIELD, Mass., March 17, 2020 — With COVID-19 now declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and states of emergency declared around the globe, the photonics market is starting to feel the impacts of the virus — global supply chains are beginning to slow, and prominent trade shows are beginning to see widespread cancellations and dropouts amid concern about the viral disease. The impact on the economy, according to Wayde Dazelle, a health economist and M.D. candidate in epidemiology at George