{"id":13122,"date":"2020-08-08T07:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T07:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2020-08-08T07:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T07:47:56","slug":"ohio-governor-dewine-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13122","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Governor DeWine Tests Positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>FRIDAY, Aug. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; On Thursday morning, Ohio governor Mike DeWine said he had tested positive for the coronavirus, but by Thursday night a second test came back negative, <i>NBC<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Why the two tests differed isn&#8217;t clear.<\/p>\n<p>The first test result came before DeWine was to meet with President Trump at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland. However, DeWine returned to Columbus and was tested for coronavirus a second time.<\/p>\n<p>The second test was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/pcr_polymerase_chain_reaction\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"proc\">PCR<\/a> test, which is &#8220;extremely sensitive, as well as specific, for the virus,&#8221; the governor&#8217;s office said in a statement. The first test was an antigen test, <i>NBC News<\/i> said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/pcr_polymerase_chain_reaction\/article.htm\" rel=\"proc\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">PCR<\/a> test was done twice for the governor and his wife and was negative each time, the office said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We feel confident in the results from Wexner Medical Center,&#8221; the office said of the PCR test. &#8220;This is the same PCR test that has been used over 1.6 million times in Ohio by hospitals and labs all over the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials will be &#8220;working with the manufacturer to have a better understanding of how the discrepancy between these two tests could have occurred,&#8221; according to the statement, <i>NBC<\/i> noted.<\/p>\n<p>Another PCR test will be given to the governor and his wife on Saturday to confirm the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=245199\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, Aug. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; On Thursday morning, Ohio governor Mike DeWine said he had tested positive for the coronavirus, but by Thursday night a second test came back negative, NBC reported. Why the two tests differed isn&#8217;t clear. The first test result came before DeWine was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596698165_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}