Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2020
'Get it done. We need it': Trump's coronavirus message to big pharma
3 March 2020 - President Donald Trump sought to show his personal engagement in the fight against coronavirus, meeting with drug company executives on Monday to elicit promises of new medicines and announcing he'll visit federal health agencies later in the week.
At the White House meeting, executives from Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, Pfizer and other manufacturers told Trump they were making rapid progress on vaccines and antivirals to combat the coronavirus, which has infected about 100 people in the country and killed six.
