Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine joined 'Your World with Neil Cavuto' Monday to discuss his plan to gradually reopen his state's economy.
"We're going to start on May 1 with opening [back] up ... our hospitals. Again, our hospitals have not been flooded with people. We've got room in our hospitals. So we're going to allow the [elective] surgeries that had not been taking place to to start back up again," DeWine said. "And then a few days later, we'll start opening up the manufacturing that had not already been open, the 'nonessential' manufacturing. We're going to have that open up.
DeWine commended the residents of his state for following social distancing guidelines after he became one of the first governors in America to institute them in mid-March. "We had small business people, big, bigger, mid-size, and they came back with some very, very great guidelines. And what they said is, 'Look, we want to open up, but we want to be careful. We want to be able to ensure the safety of the employees,'" DeWine said. "So one thing that group recommended that we endorsed and now is going to be in order is that if you work in manufacturing, you're going to wear a mask. And if you work in retail, you're gonna wear a mask.
"And as I told the people of Ohio today, look, this is not forever," DeWine added. "You know, it's going to be a while, but we will get through this this virus."Cavuto pressed DeWine on how long he thinks the coronavirus pandemic will last.
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