The news on the coronavirus pandemic in the United States is bleak as our numbers are climbing in both cases and deaths.
U.S. Representative Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) does not view all of this with a doom-and-gloom perspective and believes that as a nation, we are nearing the peak of this crisis, and then we will see the number of deaths and spread decline.
Palmer believes there is hope ahead that Americans can deal with and excel in this moment.
People have and will become sick and die. Americans will lose their jobs for no fault of their own. Large and small businesses will fold as the American economy has shut down for at least another month and probably more.
Palmer said that while right now we are seeing an increase in the number of cases of the illness, he thinks there are things that could happen in the “next few weeks” that “could change the whole dynamic.”
Not only is more testing being done, which is increasing the number of positive cases but it is also increasing the number of people that are aware that they have become ill.
Palmer noted Monday on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show” that Abbott Labs has received FDA approval to begin creating 50,000 tests that can determine if a person is infected withing five minutes, saying, “That is going to tremendously help this.”
Palmer also hit on the fact that there are “therapeutic drugs that are showing great promise” in treating patients, including the malaria drug that the President of the United States was maligned for referencing which has been approved for use with patients as well.
Commercial plants have begun manufacturing Personal Protective Equipment and ventilators. Breakthroughs in both the testing and the treatment of the symptoms of the coronavirus are moving forward as well.
There is hope ahead, and Representative Palmer believes America can get through this.
He’s right.
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Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 7-11 am weekdays on WVNN.
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