This week is the marker for six months of COVID-19 in Michigan.<\/p>\n
The first cases announced on March 10th, nothing has been the same since.<\/p>\n
I found myself saying, Weve never lived through anything like this, and I feel like Ive said that time after time after again, says Governor Gretchen Whitmer.<\/p>\n
Michigan has been through a lot in the past half year as it fought against COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Starting as one of the hardest hit states, Michigan has rebounded and is leading the way to recovery.<\/p>\n
That came with a lot of decisions made by Gov. Whitmer. The hardest she says was closing schools.<\/p>\n
That was a tough decision, she says, It weighed heavily on me.<\/p>\n
The most difficult fight? The pushback on mask wearing.<\/p>\n
If we could get the politics out of simple actions like that.<\/p>\n
And the criticism.<\/p>\n
Closing down sectors of the economy, controversial nursing home strategies and budget cuts, many not popular but Whitmer stands by the science at the time.<\/p>\n
If I could go on a time machine with the knowledge that I have today, says Whitmer, Would we make different decisions? Of course.<\/p>\n
Thats the biggest thing, how much the fight has changed as they learn more.<\/p>\n
Do you think about the incredible amount of knowledge that we have gotten about this virus in the last six months? says Whitmer, We know a lot more but there still a lot to learn though.<\/p>\n
The biggest will be a vaccine, the only way out of this pandemic according the Whitmer.<\/p>\n
Thats a very compressed timeline, says Whitmer, Ordinarily its a five-year process and if in the next six months there is a number of approved vaccines and they can start ramping up? That would be great.<\/p>\n
With it, will come new challenges, like people willing to take a vaccine. Already many saying they wont.<\/p>\n
Were going to have to give the public assurances, says Whitmer, Im going to want to know, before I take a vaccine, that there is some efficacy that is safe.<\/p>\n
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