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Governor mike dewine, welcome to firing line. Good to be with y. Thank you very much. You are the republican governor of ohio, and you took very early action to contain covid19 in your state, earning bipartisan praise from across the country. And for the past six weeks, cases have been rising again your state. And you say that ohioans have reached, quote, the mostic cr point in our battle against the corovirus. Ea what did youby that . Well, i think it could go either way in ohio at this you know, went back and looked where florida was a month they were about wh are then, today, about 6. 5 positivity. So these things can go south on you real quick. And so were were concerned out it. But the real message for ohioans is, you know, well need to wear masks, w all need to keep our social distance, and we all need just to be careful. We can do this. We can bring the economy back. We can go to work, but we have to be very, very careful. But ive bn trying to see exactly where the spread is act
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