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RandySF

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Thu Jul 23, 2020, 02:05 AM Jul 2020

TX-21: Texas congressman says his state is holding coronavirus numbers down, as cases surge [View all]

(CNN)A congressman from Texas claimed Wednesday that his state is holding coronavirus cases down even as the virus surges across Texas.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy told CNN's Brianna Keilar on "Right Now" that Texas' numbers "are going in the right direction."

"We've been working to keep the curve flat, which is the exact thing that everyone said we should do in March," he said.

Pressed by Keilar on the actual trend in Texas cases, Roy offered, "Yeah, go look at it. We've been holding those numbers down."

Texas is among a string of Southern states grappling with rising coronavirus cases. Texas had at least 353,000 cases and more than 4,200 deaths as of Wednesday afternoon, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/chip-roy-texas-coronavirus-cnntv/index.html

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