The 2020 vice-presidential debate featured the candidates Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris. The debate covered a range of topics, from the coronavirus pandemic and job loss to climate change and voting in this year’s election. Here’s the data on six of those topics.
COVID-19
The debate opened on the topic of the pandemic. The US currently reports around 44,300 new COVID-19 cases and 668 deaths each day, according to seven-day national averages. September was the third consecutive month in which the US recorded over one million new known cases of COVID-19, bringing the total of all known cases to over 7.4 million — with over 209,000 deaths — as of October 7.
