DISEASE CONTINUES TO EVOLVE,

MAKING IT ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT

THAT

AS THINGS CHANGE, WE CONTINUE TO

WORK WITH OUR LOCAL PARTNERS TO

COMMUNICATE INFORMATION TO THE

PUBLIC."

DANIELLE:

TONIGHT- MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE

ARE BEING MONITORED IN OHIO FOR

POSSIBLE CORONAVIRUS

SYMTOMS.

NOW-- GOVERNOR MIKE DEWINE IS

LAYING OUT

WHAT THE STATE PLANS TO DO IF

THE CORONAVIRUS SPREADS HERE AND

HEALTH

OFFICIALS SAY THAT IS A

POSSIBLITY.

GOOD EVENING.

I'M DANIELLE AVITABLE.

OUR OHIO STATEHOUSE REPORTER

JASON AUBRY

IS IN CLEVELAND WHERE THE

GOVERNOR MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT

THIS AFTERNOON.

JASON AUBRY, REPORTING: A SENSE

OF URGENCY IS WHAT GOVERNOR

DEWINE WANTS ALL OHIOANS TO HAVE

ABOUT THE THREAT OF CORONAVIRUS

AND HE IS ASKING FOR EVERYONE TO

TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT ITS

SPREAD.

HE HAS ORDERED STATE AGENCIES TO

TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONS AND IS

ASKING THE PRIVATE

SECTOR TO DO THE SAME BY BEING

FLEXIBLE WITH

EMPLOYEES WHEN THEY ARE SICK.

AS FOR IF YOU GET SICK THE

HEALTH DEPARTMENT

CONTINUES TO PROMOTE BEST

PRACTICES LIKE WASHING YOUR

HANDS, COVERING YOUR COUGH,

AND NOT COMING INTO CONTACT WITH

PEOPLE.

WHILE THE CORONAVIRUS MAY SEEM

SCARY,

OFFICIALS POINT OUT 10 PEOPLE

HAVE DIED IN THE

LAST THREE WEEKS JUST FROM THE

REGULAR FLU,

AND DEWINE SAYS WE ARE AT A

GREATER RISK OF

GETTING THAT THEN THE

CORONAVIRUS RIGHT

NOW.

THE HEAD OF THE OHIO DEPT OF

HEALTH PUTS THINGS INTO

PERSPECTIVE.

DR. AMY ACTON / DIR. OF OHIO

DEPT. OF HEALTH: "IT'S A LITTLE

MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE FLU, BUT

IT'S NOT AS DANGEROUS AS

THINGS WE SEEN IN THE PAST LIKE

YOU HAVE DEALT WITH HERE, LIKE

EBOLA OR SARS OR MIRS"

JASON AUBRY, REPORTING: SHE

RECOMMENDS YOU HAVE TWO WEEKS

WORTH OF REGULAR MEDICINES, AND

FOOD IN CASE YOU GET SICK, AND

TO STOCK UP ON COLD AND FLU

MEDICINE NOW AND NOT WAIT UNTIL

YOUR SICK TO GO TO THE STORE.

LOCAL FOR YOU IN CLEVELAND JA

NBC 4

DANIELLE:

BOTH OF OHIO'S SENATORS TOLD US

TODAY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS

TO BE READY TO RESPOND TO THE

CORONA VIRUS CRISIS

WITH MORE FUNDING - AND LESS

POLITICS.

SEN. ROB PORTMAN: THE

HOSPITALS ARE COORDINATING WELL

ACCORDING TO THE DEPARMENT OF

HEALTH AND ACCORDING TO SOME OF

THE HOSPITALS I'M TALKING TO,

BUT THEY COULD USE SOME MORE

FUNDING. UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS

THE KIND OF PROBLEM THAT IF YOU

DON'T PROVIDE THE FUNDING UP

FRONT YOU COULD HAVE A MUCH

BIGGER PROBLEM.

SO I TYHINK WE SHOULD PROVIDE

THE NECESSARY FUNDING. I DON'T

KNOW WHAT THAT NUMBER IS BUT

LETS TAKE THE POLITICS OUT OF

IT, DECIDE WHAT THE NEEDS ARE

AND PROVIDE THE FUNDING.

NAME: "BITE VERBATIM." 3:45 WHAT

YOU HEAR OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE

FROM THE POLITICAL PEOPLE IS

DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU ARE

HEARING WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH

OFFICIALS,

THE DOCTORS THE EPIDEMIOLOGISTS

THE PUBLIC HEALTH WORKERS WHO

KNOW THESE THINGS AND I WISH THE

PRESIDENT WOULD START LISTEN TO

OUR PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS TO

DEAL WITH THIS CRISIS INSTEAD OF

RELYING ON ELECTED OFFICIALS

LIKE KEN CUCCINELLI AND MIKE

PENCE. 4:05

DANIELLE:

THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK SENT

STOCKS PLUNGING AGAIN TODAY ON

WALL STREET AS THE WEEK-LONG

MARKET ROUTE CONTINUED.

DANIELLE:

THE DOW LOST NEARLY 12-HUNDRED

POINTS.

THE S-AND-P SHED 147..

AND, THE NASDAQ FELL 414 POINTS.