Fact check: Texas lieutenant governor falsely implies Black people to blame for Covid surge

The blame game over rising cases of Covid-19 continues along largely partisan lines, with Democrats attacking GOP governors who have banned measures like mask mandates and vaccine passports, and Republicans blaming the Biden administration's border policy for the uptick in cases.

The attacks heated up Thursday when Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claimed that African Americans were to blame for the ever-increasing wave of coronavirus cases. Patrick was asked on Fox News to respond to criticisms over his state's handling of the pandemic. "The Covid is spreading," Patrick said,"particularly, most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that.

You really didn't account for differences in population size? WOW

What proportion of the overall population is white? If you're going to lie by manipulating statistics, at least don't make it that obvious.

DrJenHo By confusing the word “share” with “percentage” or “rate”, the headline is most misleading and very deceptive, propagandistic anti-white bigotry. The article does not show that white adults have the highest percentage or rate of unvaccinated adults and neither does any study.

Can someone send this to the klansman Lt. Governor of TexAss.

The more you know. But we know DanPatrick isn't about knowing things.

And is anyone shocked! White adults are most likely to claim “holier than thou” status!

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Credible analysis of Kaiser family foundation shows that white adult account for the largest share of unvaccinated adults. This data is certainly accurate and believable. Professor Isagholian, virology and immunology

. VaccinesSaveLives Please go out and get yourself & your loved ones vaccinated. CDCgov CDCDirector EricTopol 👇

Uhhh.. duh.. we could of told you that.

Chicof92 Is this a surprise

Per-fucking-capita.

DanPatrickTX you should just wear your white hood full time.

Not according to Dan Patrick.

Leave it to CNN to race bait . Go figure.

chadloder If they were mad about the census data, they're really going to be bummed about this. 😂Tik tok

Well why not? Our privilege has protected us from everything else…🙄

I mean we didn't really need a study to tell us this. Social Media has pretty much shown this since day 1.

White, red neck, adults. There fixed it even more for you.

So WHAT!

Covid-19 doesn't discriminate, neither does ignorance.

But FOX news tells us its the Mexican immigrants and blacks.

Racism does no good, in any cases.

🤣🤣 take THAT you racist bigots on TX 😠 NOW go get vaccinated 😷

We KNEW this already 🤣🤣🤣

Curious to know per capita for each race nationwide

Esta familia káiser es de los otros que también crearon este virus covid 19 😡 hdspm

He could not blame immigrants and if he said Whites, he knows GOP directed them to not get vaccinated .

Article states”Patrick's state of Texas, Black people represent 15% of cases, Hispanics 52% and White people 32%.” What CNN didn’t tell you: pop of Blacks is 13%, whites is 41% and Hispanics is 40%. What CNN should be looking at is which pop is getting hit the worst &why?

Dan Patrick of Texas should resign.

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Why are we putting race on this? Idiots comes in all shapes, sizes and colors 😏

White Trump supporters.

A larger percentage of white ppl are self reporting as vaccinated than black however it’s not by much and there are more white people in this country than black people by a lot. He could have looked at the numbers of hospitalized in his state, 52% hospitalized are Hispanic.

But Texas is blaming black people. Cut that's what Texas do.

Texas Lieutenant lies about what?

Yep, and I tweeted such yesterday.

Proof DanPatrick is a fool full of shit! Respectfully.

that's perhaps there are more white adults and maybe more of them are not suitable to be vaccinated I know what you want to sell, CNN you are not gonna sell it by giving part of the results you want us to see

never thought I'd live to see a fact check that wasn't obnoxious bullshit and/or as deceptive as the 'fact'

And your point. The vaccine does not stop the spread of covid. If it helps reduce the risks, great perfect so why are Vax ppl still so worried

Pretty sure its this group

Well no shit.... Just like cops kill more whites than blacks too.... Population! Blacks have the biggest percentage of unvaccinated per ratio to population

By that you mean republicans rednecks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This you, too?

So Kaiser's analysis differs from your own. How do you account for the discrepancies?

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