In a racist statement, the Texas deputy governor blamed unvaccinated blacks for the increase in the incidence and mortality of Covid-19, but the state health department’s data do not support his claims, the Guardian reported.
British newspaper reported, “Dan Patrick” blamed the black for the increase in the number of Covid-19 patients.
The state reportedly has the highest rate of Covid-19 since January.
The Guardian added that in a racist and misleading statement, the state official blamed unvaccinated African Americans for the increase in hospitalization and deaths from Covid-19.
“Democrats continue to play politics with people’s lives,” Patrick told Fox News after the allegations were made in an interview with Fox News. ». “The largest unvaccinated groups in most US states are of African descent,” the Republican vice president of Texas told Fox News Thursday night.
Democrat Sylvester Turner, an African-American mayor of Houston, responded to Patrick by saying that the deputy governor’s remarks were “insulting and should not be ignored.”
Amid widespread concern about the spread of the delta type, Texas is experiencing the highest hospitalization rate due to Covid-19 since January. It was revealed this week that the state has asked federal authorities for more trucks to transport the bodies. The vast majority of Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the United States are said to be unvaccinated.
“I surveyed and found that more than 90 percent of blacks in big cities voted for Democrats last time,” Patrick said in a televised interview. “So the current situation is up to the Democrats to try to vaccinate more of them.”
In his first statement Friday, Patrick said federal and state data clearly showed that black vaccination rates were significantly lower than those vaccinated by whites and Hispanics.
But statistics from the Texas Department of Health do not support these claims. According to available statistics, Texas blacks make up about 12 percent of the state’s population of more than 29 million. It accounts for nearly 15 percent of all Covid-19 cases and just over 10 percent of Texas deaths.
According to state data, only 44 percent of Texans have received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, which is less than the national rate of about 50 percent. According to Johns Hopkins University, Covid-19 has killed more than 50,000 people in the state so far.
