May 2020, Vol. 247, No. 5
Ramifications of COVID-19
Enterprise Products CEO Puts Personal Spin on COVID-19
By Jeff Awalt, Executive Editor Enterprise Products Partners’ outspoken co-CEO Jim Teague used an April 29 conference call with investors as an opportunity to comment on the U.S. economic shutdown while reflecting on his personal experience during the 1950s polio epidemic and as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in relation to the COVID-19 response. Teague “This is not the first time in my lifetime that we’ve been invaded by an invisible enemy. I remember as a little boy the most feared disease of the 20th century, polio. It was a highly contagious virus. It struck without warning. It paralyzed and it killed,” Teague said, recalling how people diagnos

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