And Wagoner was sickened after traveling. When he first started having symptoms of COVID, I said, how does Mick Wagoner from Toledo, Ohio, come down with a virus from China? his son says.
Credit: Wagoner family
Mick Wagoner started feeling symptoms after returning from a vacation in Florida.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine sounded the alarm on March 9, announcing the first three cases of COVID-19 and declaring a state of emergency.
Days later, the governor gathered the state s big-city mayors on a conference call and hammered home the storm that was about to sweep into the state. He told the mayors that they were now at war with an unseen enemy.