What Went Down During The First Presidential Debate

We released a poll this morning showing that the majority of Americans would wait for their personal doctor to tell them to get a vaccine, and very few would follow Trump’s lead on a vaccine.

According to our tracker of polling data about Americans’ reactions to the coronavirus pandemic, 56.4 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis.

One key point of debate over COVID-19 is when we might expect a vaccine. Work by Dan Carpenter shows that politicians aren’t very good at directly influencing the drug approval process, but can exercise influence indirectly by increasing media salience of a drug or vaccine.