President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will dedicate much of Monday to working to prevent a full-on coronavirus outbreak in the US.

Trump, eager to halt a market panic and quiet Democratic criticism, will host pharmaceutical executives at 3 p.m. Monday in the White House Cabinet Room to discuss efforts to produce a vaccine.

The coronavirus killed its first two Americans this weekend — as scientists warned the virus may have spread widely in the US without detection.

Even before the initial deaths, panic plunged the Dow by 3,500 points last week in the worst downturn since the Great Recession.

Pence, Trump’s point person on the virus, will make himself comfortable in the West Wing Situation Room, leading a teleconference with governors at noon and convening a coronavirus task force meeting at 4 p.m.

After Trump departs to host a rally in North Carolina, Pence will take journalists’ questions during a 5 p.m. White House briefing, where he will be joined by Deborah Birx, his coronavirus coordinator and the State Department’s top HIV/AIDS official.

Trump, who has tried to calm public fear, will also have lunch with Pence. On Friday the president declared Democratic criticism of the coronavirus response a new “hoax” after impeachment failed.

The virus response will overshadow other items on the agenda Monday, including Trump welcoming Colombia’s president in the morning and Pence addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Researchers say there’s evidence the virus spread widely in the West, mirroring outbreaks in Italy, Iran and South Korea after the virus emerged in China’s Hubei province in late December.

Community spread could explode the number of US cases. Currently there are fewer than 90 people in the US who have tested positive — more than half of whom had been evacuated either from Wuhan, China, or the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

The two deaths reported this weekend occurred in Washington state — men in their 50s and 70s with underlying health problems. The first victim had no recent travel to China or any connection with a known infected person, while the second victim died at the same hospital.

In Washington state, a nursing home is in a state of panic after a resident and staffer tested positive, with other suspected cases among residents. And in California, there are at least two cases without links to known infected individuals.

The Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, Wash., found that if the virus has been spreading in Washington state since mid-January, as genetic sequencing suggests, it’s likely about 300 to 500 state residents are infected.

Globally there are nearly 90,000 cases of the coronavirus — the vast majority of which are in China.