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There's an upside to the coronavirus, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Thursday on Fox Business, and it's jobs.

"Every American's heart has to go out to the victims of the coronavirus," he began, "so I don't want to talk about a victory lap about a very unfortunate, very malignant disease." But, Ross continued, inconsistent supply from factories in affected areas is a "risk factor that people need to take into account" and one which could "help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America, some to U.S., probably some to Mexico as well."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.