Dan Patrick refuses to apologise for false claim while Texas experiences highest hospitalisation rates since January
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Dan Patrick, the Republican lieutenant governor of Texas, has refused to apologise for blaming rising Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths on unvaccinated African Americans, comments one Black Houston official called “racist and flat out wrong”.
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