White House to Meet with Big Tech Companies to Discuss Coronavirus

The White House will meet large technology companies to coordinate efforts over the coronavirus outbreak, seeking to control a contagious respiratory illness that has infected almost 1,000 people in the United States and more than 100,000 globally. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy confirmed to Reuters the meeting would include Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon.com Inc, Twitter Inc, Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp.