Ohio Governor Mike DeWine now tests NEGATIVE for coronavirus just hours after positive result scuppered Trump meeting
A SECOND coronavirus test for Governor Mike DeWine has come back negative, hours after he tested positive and scrapped a meeting with President Donald Trump.
The gov announced he tested negative for in a statement on Twitter Thursday evening.
"In a second COVID-19 test administered today in Columbus, Governor Mike DeWine has tested negative for COVID-19," he said.
First lady Fran DeWine and staff members also tested negative.
DeWine tested positive for the virus on Thursday morning using a rapid test, which was part of the protocol to greet President at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland.
He said he was asymptomatic and had planned to quarantine at home for the next two weeks.
DeWine then returned to Columbus and took a second COVID-19 test from Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center called a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test that came back negative late Thursday night.
His first test was an antigen test, according to the .
The second test - the PCR test - is known as the more sensitive and accurate of the two because it looks at specific genetic material for the virus.
DeWine explained the efficacy of the PCR test in a lengthy after announcing his negative results.
PCR tests for the 73-year-old governor, his wife, and staff were run twice on two different diagnostic platforms and came back negative both times, according to The Enquirer.
"We feel confident in the results from Wexner Medical Center," DeWine said in a released statement.
"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."
The DeWines plan to take another PCR test Saturday for extra caution and at the direction of doctors. Those results will be released.
DeWine was set to meet the president at the Cleveland airport on Thursday before a Trump campaign event .
He is the second governor known to have contracted the virus, after Governor Kevin Stitt.
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