Trump: asked drugmakers to speed virus vax as he plans to meet execs

President Donald Trump said Monday he’s asked pharmaceutical companies to speed up work on a coronavirus vaccine, ahead of an afternoon meeting with drug-company executives.
“We’ve asked them to accelerate” work, Trump told reporters during a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque at the White House.
The president, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the administration’s coronavirus task force, is scheduled to meet with the executives at the White House at 3 p.m. Eastern. The executives’ names and companies haven’t yet been released by the administration.
The U.S., which has reported multiple instances of transmission of the illness, now has a total of 86 cases and two deaths from COVID-19, a novel coronavirus that was first detected in China in December.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-to-meet-with-pharmaceutical-executives-as-second-coronavirus-death-in-us-reported-2020-03-02