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THAN TWO WEEKS. TESTING IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE KEYS TO RESTARTING THE ECONOMIC ENGINE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY POTENTIALLY SAVING LIVES. THE NUMBERS TELL YOU OHIO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH COVID-19 TESTING. MOLLIE: GOVERNOR MIKE DEWINE USED A NATIONAL PLATFORM TO TRY TO CHANGE THAT. ON A WEEKEND OHIO SURPASSED 10,000 CONFIRMED CASES. WLWT NEWS 5’S JATARA MCGEE IS LIVE WITH THE GOVERNOR’S PU FOR MORE TESTS JATARA: THIS MORNING ON NATIONAL TELEVISION, GOVERNOR DEWINE PUSHED AND ASKED THE DRUG ADMINISTRATION TO IMPROVE TESTING IN OHIO AND WITHIN HOURS, THEY WERE ON THE PHONE. >> I COULD PROBABLY DOUBLE OR TRIPLE TESTING IN OHIO OVERNIGHT. JATARA: OHIO GOVERNOR MIKE DEWINE IN A SUNDAY MORNING MEET THE PRESS APPEARANCE, TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE SAYS IS NOW OHIO’S BIG PROBLEM IN THE CORONAVIR CRISIS. >> IF THE FDA WOULD PRIORITIZE COMPANIES THAT ARE PUTTING A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FORMULA TOGETHER FOR THE EXTRACTIO REAGENT KIT. JATARA: DEWINE SAYS THE STATE’S TESTING CAPACITY WOULD BOOST OVERNIGHT DESPITE WHAT HE CALLED A WORLDWIDE SHORTAGE OF SOME MATERIALS NEEDED FOR TESTING DEWINE, LATER TWEETING, TWEET -- HE RECEIVED A VERY POSITIVE PHONE CALL FROM THE FDA A SHORT TIME AGO. >> NUMBER ONE, IT’S GOING TO HELP CONTROL THE SPREAD. JATARA: TIFFANY MATTINGLY WITH THE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE EXPLAINS ONE OF MANY REASONS OHIO NEEDS MORE TESTING. >> TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A CLEARER VIEW OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING WITH THE VIRUS, WHAT TRULY IS THE PREVALENCE? WE DID NOT KNOW BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE UNIVERSAL TESTING RIGHT NOW. JATARA: FOR NOW, OHIO IS PRIORITIZING PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL, FIRST RESPONDERS, HEALTHCARE WORKERS AND PEOPLE IN POPULATIONS SUSCEPTIBLE TO AN OUTBREAK LIKE NURSING FACILITIES, JAILS AND PRISONS. AS OF 2:00 P.M., NEARLY 87,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TESTED IN OHIO LESS THAN 1% OF THE STATE’S POPULATION OF MORE THAN 11 MILLIO IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY SLOW PROCESS AND TESTING WILL BE A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF THAT. JATARA ONE AREA OF IMPROVEMENT IS TESTING TURNAROUND TIME. RESULTS WERE TAKING A WEEK OR LONGER TO COME BACK AND NOW THEY ARE TAKING ONE TO TWO DAYS

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Ohio Gov. DeWine is urging the Food and Drug Administration to prioritize companies working to produce formulas for COVID-19 tests to increase testing in the state.DeWine said Ohio could significantly increase testing across the state in a matter of a day with the FDA's help."Our big problem today, I could probably double, maybe even triple testing in Ohio virtually overnight with FDA help," DeWine said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. DeWine said if the FDA prioritized companies that are putting a slightly different formula together for the extraction reagent kit used for COVID-19 testing, it would help ramp up the state's capacity for testing."If the FDA would do that, we have a worldwide shortage of some of the materials that go into this," DeWine said on "Meet the Press." "We really need help. anybody in the FDA is watching, this would really take our capacity up literally overnight."DeWine later tweeted that he received a "very positive phone call" from the FDA shortly after the Meet the Press appearance.DeWine said the state has had a great partnership with President Trump and his administration. "Three weekends ago I called the president about a real problem we had about sterilizing masks, the N95 masks, and that was an FDA problem. And the president got that done," DeWine said.DeWine was then able to get full approval from the FDA to sterilize masks using Ohio company Battelle. As of 2 p.m. Sunday, nearly 87,000 people have been tested for COVID-19 in Ohio. That is less than one percent of the state's population of more than 11-million.Tiffany Mattingly, Senior Director of Clinical Initiatives and Quality Improvement with the Health Collaborative said testing is key to better understanding the virus."To have a clearer view of what's actually happening with this virus," she said. "What truly is the prevalence? We don't really know, because we don't have universal testing." For now, Ohio is prioritizing patients admitted to the hospital and showing coronavirus symptoms, health care workers, first responders and people in populations which are susceptible to an outbreak, for example, nursing facilities and prisons.As of Sunday morning, Ohio has 1,115 new positive COVID-19 cases bringing the state's total to 10,222.The jump in cases is significant, as 9,107 cases were reported on Friday.The Ohio Department of Health also reported 33 new deaths and the state's total climbed to 451.