DeWine defends masks as fellow GOP governors lift mandates
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Sunday defended his state's continued mask mandate amid fellow Republican governors recently lifting pandemic-related restrictions in their own states.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Mississippi Tate Reeves both rolled back all coronavirus restrictions last week, including mask mandates and allowing businesses to operate at full capacity. While appearing on ABC's "This Week," DeWine was asked by host Martha Raddatz if he thought they were making a mistake.
"Martha, I have a great deal of respect for my colleagues in Texas and Mississippi," DeWine said. "But in Ohio, we can't give up the defense. We have found these masks work exceedingly well."
"We've set a metric. We've put a goal out there when we got to 50 cases for 100,000 for every two weeks - that's what the epidemiologists that we consult with said - when we get down to that figure, we'll be able to take the health orders off but we're a ways from that," he said.
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