Mike Pence is bringing airline CEOs to the White House today to press for what he called 'greater cooperation' on data used to track down passengers when someone on a flight is later found to have the new coronavirus.
President Trump toured the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday with top health official Anthony Fauci — part of a series of events and meetings the White House is using to show it has the response to coronavirus in hand.Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
President Trump toured the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday with top health official Anthony Fauci — part of a series of events and meetings the White House is using to show it has the response to coronavirus in hand.
"We'll be meeting with the CEOs of all the major airline carriers here," Pence told reporters."The topic will be contact tracing data and how we can have a stronger relationship in the 11 airports that have been assisting us with screening personnel coming back into the country." Pence said he also plans to meet CEOs of leading commercial laboratories on Wednesday to"clear up any potential barriers" to ramping up coronavirus test processing around the country.The new meetings are part of a series of public events the Trump administration is using as it seeks to demonstrate that is has control of the response to the virus.
President Trump toured a vaccine lab at the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday, and plans to visit the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday. Pence will visit a 3M plant in Minnesota that has contracted with the federal government to
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