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As Texas sets 3 more single-day records on coronavirus, Gov. Greg Abbott predicts next week will ‘look worse’

As three single-day records related to coronavirus were set Thursday, Abbott acknowledged that the statewide mask order he issued last week is unpopular. But he said people simply must become familiar with “the severity of COVID-19 right now” in Texas and, like the people shown walking in downtown Fort Worth last week, wear masks.

Texans may not be accustomed to wearing masks, but that’s ‘the only strategy we have left to avoid having our economy shut down again,’ he pleaded.

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