DeWine: Trump's Advice To Not Let COVID Dominate Life 'Certainly Is True'

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine expressed agreement with President Donald Trump’s advice in a tweet about COVID-19 that has since drawn controversy from some politicians, virus survivors and others.

DeWine held a press briefing Tuesday (October 6), saying that it “certainly is true” that people “should not let the virus dominate (their) lives.”

Before leaving Walter Reed Medical Center, where he received treatment for COVID-19, Trump tweeted that people shouldn’t fear the virus that has claimed more than 200,000 lives nationwide since the pandemic began.

“Don’t be afraid of Covid,” Trump wrote on the tweet Monday (October 5). “Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”

The tweet didn’t sit well with some.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, for example, took to Twitter to respond to the president.

Brown said, in part, “tell that to all the Americans who - unlike you - DON’T have access to the best healthcare in the world, funded entirely by taxpayers.”

There have been nearly 161,300 confirmed cases in Ohio as of Tuesday, according to the Ohio Department of Health. The state has tracked more than 4,900 deaths.

Last month, DeWine and health experts were bracing for colder weather coming to Ohio, ushering more people indoors, where the novel coronavirus can spread easier.

DeWine recently concluded that citizens should continue to wear masks, social distance and take other preventative measures after a study showed that very few Ohioans have developed antibodies.

“It does not mean that we have to be afraid,” DeWine said Tuesday. “It does, however, mean that we have to be realistic and practical about it…The virus is the enemy of our freedom.”

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