The administration has demonstrated its incompetence. Lives are on the line.

deliberately or not, significant # of OH voters to reject tr due to his abhorrent behavior?

Ohio Republican voters only look for the "R" - they can vote for any number of people who hate each other, have conflicting policies/platforms, etc. They don't look any farther than the "R" and that's the one they mark. I do know a lot of Democratic voters in Ohio are grudgingly willing to credit he's doing better than they expected, including me. He never struck me as a Trump cultist, though. And I could be wrong - if it becomes obvious President Lumpy is obstructing a well-meaning effort to benefit people, it might, at least, discourage some wafflers from voting in 2020.

his plea was successful and he credited trump

Are there serious questions about the machine's capabilities? Does the risk of too rapid use of (perhaps) untested technology pose too great a risk to hospital staff? Or is there some idiotic bureaucratic holdup? A need by some mid-level manager to have his ego stroked before he grants approval?

I can't find any info on why?
why not approve and let them go full capacity?

On something that there is no standard for approval.

You can only grant a “waiver” of a regulatory requirement.

But if it is a new, novel approach, there IS no existing regulatory requirement to grant a waiver from.

It’s kind of a regulatory catch-22.

They will figure out something to say by , oh, about Thursday.

(27-year government employee)

The FDA isn’t open until Monday.

Then the head exec guys will call down to whoever is the section that is working that project, and demand that the first line manager make a power point to brief the execs on what the issues are, and then they will have to consult with the risk analysis statisticians, and then call the company to clarify exactly what it is they want to do. And then the expects will go into some meetings, and talk with each other, and call over to Mike Pence’s office to give him the heads up that they are considering Dewines request.

Should be granted about Thursday.

Link to tweet

Trump and the GOPutin need to figure out how they are going to make money from it!
You can't just willy-nilly resolve an issue that people are making millions of dollars on.

UV is used for sterilization in many ways, in-line home water systems and dental procedures for example. Users might need eye protection.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a quick about-face, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, responding to criticism from Gov. Mike DeWine, has granted expanded approval for a new device developed by an Ohio research firm that sterilizes the protective masks used by health-care workers.

The FDA on Sunday night issued an amended approval order, revoking a Saturday order that only permitted Battelle to use the device at its headquarters in Columbus, and only to clean 10,000 masks per day. The limited order angered DeWine, leading him to rebuke the agency publicly Sunday morning and seek intervention from President Donald Trump. Before the limited order, Battelle had planned to immediately deploy to New York City its new technology, which it said could clean up to 160,000 masks a day in Ohio alone.

The new, expanded order still requires Battelle to operate the devices and report results to the FDA, but instead says the firm can sanitize 10,000 masks per chamber load at its headquarters and at “satellite facilities," as long as Battelle provides “confirmation that all chambers, critical parameters, logistics, processes, containment systems, and labeling are identical and in place."

Like the earlier order, each mask is approved to be sanitized and re-used up to 20 times. DeWine administration and Battelle officials said the technology will help increase the availability of the respirator masks, also used by first responders, amid a national shortage.

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/03/us-fda-oks-expanded-use-of-new-mask-cleaning-technology-after-pressure-from-dewine-trump.html

But I guess this is lie # 9999999999