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With announcements from federal health officials that it’s only a matter of time before the coronavirus COVID-19 spreads more widely in America, the Dow’s 2,000-point drop over the last two days shows the country’s businesses and financiers are taking stock of their exposure to the fast-spreading disease.

On one hand, the real estate business thrives on in-person contact, and many construction materials supply chains run through China, whose dramatic disease prevention measures have significantly slowed factory output. Based on these and other indicators, or simple investor fears of the unknown, it might be reasonable for a real estate business or a bank to fear the future.

On the other hand, not only is America far away from the epidemic’s hot spots, it has seen very few cases of COVID-19 so far. On top of that, Greater Boston has a very large concentration of hospitals and some of the best providers of medical care in the world. It might be equally reasonable, in this context, to be utterly sanguine about the disease’s potential impact on Massachusetts.

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