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Greg Abbott: “Texas has one of the lowest death rates in the United…”

Featuring: Greg Abbott, Republican | Governor of Texas

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Gov. Greg Abbott Interview

Published | Video Starts at 02:06

We've never had any challenges with regard to limited hospital capacity with ventilators, with the ability to treat people who may test positive for COVID 19. And two very important factual numbers, and that is Texas has one of the lowest death rates in the United States, but we have the second highest number of recoveries from COVID 19 of any state in America. Okay. Those are positive signs. But what's the status of testing around the state and can state labs keep up? Sure. So testing continues to increase. (02:06–02:17)

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Asserts that Texas has one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates and the second highest number of recoveries in the U.S.

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