A key argument of Mr Pence and President Donald Trump, even as case counts were rising through June, was that this was an artefact of increased testing and that the death rates continued to decline.
It really wasn't that long ago that I would have laughed in your face if you told me that I would own my own online business and that I'd have a team of people working for me.
Now, she's investigating ethical issues about human-centered artificial intelligence, issues that would have been hard for anyone to formulate when she graduated 25 years ago.