Saying “our state’s life is now in danger” an impassioned Gov. Mike DeWine is calling on Ohioans to increase their vigilance to ward off the threat of COVID-19 infections sweeping the state. The governor on early Wednesday evening stopped short, though, of implementing a statewide mask mandate or rolling back business reopenings amid a four-figure daily spike in cases. He said “that discussion is for another time.” “If all of us do not take immediate action to slow this virus down, the tragedy that we see playing out on our television screens every day in Florida, Texas, Arizona and California may well be our reality in just a matter of weeks … It does not have to be this way in Ohio,” DeWine said. DeWine used his statewide address on TV to stress the urgency and danger of the spike in coronavirus cases, telling Ohioans: “Our future truly lies in…
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