Ramp Up Testing In Buckeye State
Beginning the process of allowing businesses to reopen in Ohio, as Gov. Mike DeWine desires, will require vastly more testing of whether people have COVID-19 or have had it. Ohio lacks the necessary resources to do that.
On Sunday, DeWine remarked in a television interview that many hospitals lack certain chemicals needed for testing. Within hours, someone in the Food and Drug Administration contacted him with what the governor termed “a very positive phone call.”
Let us hope so. Federal officials face a variety of requests for help from the nation’s governors. But if the nation is to be “reopened,” providing adequate testing materials and facilities will have to be a priority for states such as Ohio.
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