TEXAS Gov. Abbott (R) Caught Saying Reopening Will Escalate Covid-19; Phone Recording
'Texas Gov. Abbott Caught On Recording Saying Reopening Will Escalate Coronavirus Spread On Same Day As State Businesses Reopen,' Newsweek, May 5, 2020.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been caught on an audio recording saying that reopening the state's businesses will "actually will lead to an increase in spread" of coronavirus, adding, "The goal never has been to get COVID-19 transmission down to zero."
The audio, released by the group Progress Texas, is reportedly from a May 1 call Abbott held with state legislators to discuss reopening businesses shuttered by the coronavirus epidemic. A Progress Texas spokeswoman told The San Antonio Current that the recording was provided by a legislator's chief of staff to the Texas Democratic Party.
"How do we know reopening businesses won't result in faster spread of COVID-19? Listen, the fact of the matter is, pretty much every scientific and medical report shows that whenever you have a reopening... that it actually will lead to an increase in spread," Abbott says in the recording. "It's almost ipso facto... The goal never has been to get COVID-19 transmission down to zero."...
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- Gov. Greg Abbott (R) displays testing vials for Covid-19 at a press conference on March 18, 2020.
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