Texas' lieutenant governor blamed rising hospitalisation and death rates from COVID-19 on unvaccinated Black people — comments that were quickly denounced as racist.Republican Lt. Governor Dan Patrick made the remarks on Thursday night on a Fox News segment in response to question about the latest coronavirus surge in Texas. The state is seeing its highest hospitalisation rates since January as the highly contagious delta variant spreads.“The biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated,” Patrick said.
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