Altria Group CEO Howard Willard Has Coronavirus, Will Take Leave

Altria Group Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Willard has contracted the coronavirus illness and is taking a temporary medical leave of absence, becoming one of the first CEOs of a major U.S. company to be hit by the fast-spreading outbreak.

Finance Chief Billy Gifford will assume authority and responsibilities for Mr. Willard, 56 years old, until he returns from his leave of absence, the company said.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

Leadership in business and government are vulnerable to infection since they are meeting with so many people.

yashar Thank GOD there's plenty of cigarettes. With no food to be bought, cigarettes will curb everyone's appetite & keep them in business.

UnionSquareGrp Perfect time to light one up.

Thoughts and prayers.

Only well-known people deserve coronavirus, and poor people are only suitable for getting flu.

You played on yourself CoronaOutbreak

Time to face it....most people will get this virus.

It's the only reason this is a real concern. If it was only affecting certain income brackets say under 75k they would all be 'Thoughts and Prayers go out to ___'

yashar is he gonna cut back to 2 packs a day?

Why are we only hearing about some well known people testing positive, but hardly ever that they recovered? Even though they must have recovered as there was no headline about their death either. I am starting to wonder why that could possibly be.

Biting tongue

Oh my gad I wanna that cigarettes so badly..

yashar they aren’t called Mediums anymore!! Red labels

yashar Ugh! We’re now in the phase of hearing people we know or “know” testing positive. The next phase will be far more brutal

Karma

Oh, well.

Nobody smokes anymore anyways so he can take some time off

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