What Went Down During The Vice Presidential Debate

Mike Pence is talking about the timeline for a vaccine. Americans don’t have high hopes for getting a COVID-19 vaccine before the election. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll from late August and early September, only 14 percent of Americans think that a vaccine will be widely available before Nov. 3, while 81 percent say that won’t happen.

Twitter sentiment towards Harris starts the debate largely positive, while conversation about Pence is more mixed. Harris is also generating more volume than Pence. We’ll watch to see if any parts of this debate correlates with shifts.

Development of a vaccine and therapeutics can be supported by the administration, but it’s not really up to them whether or not researchers and pharmaceutical companies decide to pursue development of a vaccine.