Millions of workers across the globe face unemployment and financial hardship amid the exponential spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the COVID-19 disease. Per the Independent, as much as a third of the UK’s roughly 3.2 million hospitality jobs could wind up on the chopping block. CNBC writes that an estimated 5 million people in China lost their jobs during the first two months of the outbreak alone. Meanwhile, Market Watch reports that as of March 15, 643 U.S workers have suffered coronavirus-related layoffs, which CNBC says could rise to as high as 3.5 million layoffs in the increasingly likely event of a recession.

Meanwhile, the stock market has seesawed between lucrative hope and catastrophic despair. On March 16, the DOW, which saw record highs three weeks earlier, took a Mike Tyson-like punch to the gut that sent it tumbling nearly 3,000 points in the largest drop of points in recorded history, according to Forbes. Small businesses have suffered, restaurants are preparing to serve pink slips to employees, and the travel industry has ground to a screeching halt. But as people embrace social distancing and prepare to weather the pandemic storm, some companies have had a much sunnier financial outlook throughout.

Lucrative pharmaceuticals, net benefits for Netflix and just peachy for bleach

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