NPR Coronavirus Updates

Amid Campaign Jabs Over Vaccine, Senate Holds Hearing On Treatment Development

By Alana Wise,
Barbara Sprunt
Published September 9, 2020 at 3:00 AM MDT
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The president has in recent weeks escalated campaign promises to deliver a vaccine by the end of the year, suggesting that a treatment against the coronavirus could be ready by the November election.

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Alana Wise
Alana Wise is a politics reporter on the Washington desk at NPR.
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Barbara Sprunt
Barbara Sprunt is a producer on NPR's Washington desk, where she reports and produces breaking news and feature political content. She formerly produced the NPR Politics Podcast and got her start in radio at as an intern on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered and Tell Me More with Michel Martin. She is an alumnus of the Paul Miller Reporting Fellowship at the National Press Foundation. She is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania native.
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