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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.
COLUMBUS, Ohio- Ohio GOP Gov Mike DeWine, who tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday morning, has tested negative on a second test for COVID-19, bringing the validity of such tests under scrutiny.
The governor took the second test within hours of the first test, the first test a rapid antigen test that produces results in minutes that are not always accurate.
He took the original test as part of protocol prior to a scheduled meeting in Cleveland on Thursday with President Donald Trump, who was campaigning in Northern Ohio.
When DeWine left Cleveland on Thursday and returned to his home in Cedarville he took a second test at Ohio State University's Wexel Medical Center, which utilized a more standard procedure, that test bringing back the negative coronavirus result.
Elected governor in 2018 following a heated campaign against Democrat Richard Cordray, DeWine is the second U.S. governor behind Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt to be deemed infected with the coronavirus, and the first to have been deemed infected when he does not, in fact, have the deadly virus.
DeWine spoke to reporters after first testing positive for COVID-19 and said he feels fine, though he did say he has asthma.
The governor said Thursday when he thought he had the virus that he has full confidence in the lieutenant governor and that "my intentions are to do part of a press conference tomorrow."
Lt Gov Jon Husted was tested too, and he tested negative.
Ohio's first lady, Fran DeWine, underwent coronavirus testing too, sources said Thursday, and she tested negative for the virus.
A Republican and President Trump ally, and a former U.S. senator and Ohio attorney general, DeWine, 73, had been quarantined in his home.
When it was first reported that Ohio's governor had the virus President Trump commented publicly on the matter.
During a press conference Thursday at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport the president, in the Cleveland area also to do fundraising as the Nov 3 presidential election nears and he faces an uphill battle against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, said "we want to wish him [DeWine] the best, he'll be fine."
Ohio has reported more than 96,000 confirmed cases and 3,596 deaths as the nation faces a re-spiking of the virus.
The deadly virus for which there is no vaccine has spread to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and the nation has nearly 4.8 million reported cases and some 159,000 people dead, worldwide figures showing that there are 18.8 million cases globally and roughly 706,000 deaths.
More than 55 million Americans remain out of work due to the crippling pandemic.
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