Ohio Gov. Dewine tests positive for COVID-19:
Oh, boo hoo on his being upset if people actually get the right idea about masks! Good thing he reneged on banning HCQ - he'll probably have to use it!Gov. Mike DeWine: ‘I feel fine,’ but surprised, after testing positive for COVID-19
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says he “feels fine” after learning Thursday he had been infected with COVID-19 ahead of his planned welcome to President Donald Trump as he visited Ohio.
“It’s a big surprise,” the governor said in a live online video chat with reporters from the front porch of his home near Cedarville late Thursday afternoon. “We are very, very careful with who we see.”
“I called Fran and headed back and stopped in Columbus and some of the people who work very closely with me were tested,” DeWine said, adding results are being awaited on them and himself, perhaps this evening.
“I feel fine. Have a headache, but I get a lot of headaches throughout my life, so a headache is not anything unusual,” DeWine said.
“I had no symptoms, no indication that I had COVID-19,” he said. “I am sure this will be an experience, not one I was hoping for.” DeWine said he called each of his seven children to tell them personally of his infection.
DeWine repeated his mantra of wearing a mask, saying it “improves your odds” of not spreading the virus. He was only tested once for coronavirus prior to Thursday, testing negative.
Asked about contracting the virus while wearing a mask, DeWine said, “I already got a few not very nice texts from people about that. ‘We told you this was all fake and we told you wearing a mask doesn’t matter.’ Look, we know it does.
“If people take that lesson from the fact that I apparently have it, that would be the wrong lesson. That would be very, very sad and upset me quite a bit.”