Andrew Cuomo Says It Is ‘Bad News’ That Potential Virus Vaccine Comes While Donald Trump Is In Office
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said it was “bad news” that a potential coronavirus vaccine has been developed while President Trump is in office.
The New York Democrat also said that he is working with other governors to potentially “stop” the Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines for coronavirus, saying that its current design is “flawed.”
Como was responding to Pfizer’s announcement on Monday that its coronavirus vaccine has proved 90% effective during clinical trials. The trial results are a potential game-changer in the fight against the virus, which has caused nearly 240,000 deaths in the U.S. this year.
“The good news is the Pfizer tests look good and we’ll have a vaccine shortly. The bad news is that it’s about two months before Joe Biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo did not specify his complaint about the administration’s coronavirus rollout plan.
He asserted that the current plan will be “slow” and will “bypass” patients who do not have easy access to hospitals, physicians and drug stores.
Cuomo said he has been talking to other U.S. governors about “how can we shape the Trump Administration vaccine plan to fix it or stop it before it does damage.”
Cuomo has cast doubt in the past on any vaccine developed during the Trump administration. He also formed a task force in September that he said would review and test any vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration before distributing it in New York.
“I don’t believe the American people are that confident,” Cuomo said in an interview on ABC News on Oct. 19.
“I think it’s going to be a very skeptical American public about taking a vaccine, and they should be.”
Despite Cuomo’s complaints about the vaccine rollout plan, the Trump administration has said it will prioritize distribution of a vaccine to people who are at higher risk of severe illness due to the virus.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Oct. 16 that it has partnered with CVS and Walgreens to provide vaccines to residents of long-term care facilities with no out-of-pocket cost to the patients.
Cuomo has come under fire over a policy he implemented in March that required hospitals to send nursing home residents hospitalized with coronavirus back to their long-term care facilities. Cuomo implemented the policy in order to clear up hospital bed space to deal with what health officials expected to be a massive tidal wave of coronavirus patients.
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Spoken like the true POS he is!!
When will this man be prosecuted for the mass murder of hundreds of senior citizens in NY????? Would he have preferred more die, rather than a vaccine being offered during the Trump administration??? It sure seems that way!
All these democrats past and present are responsible for killing over a million people so far and they want to kill even more just so the president doesn’t get credit for the vaccine . way to go liberals .
He killed my sisters mother in law. COVID patients were forced into her geriatric facility. Nurses resigned out of fear of virus as facility and staff had no protective equipment . COVID swept through facility, killing as it went. Cuomo family is a plague on New York.
100s of grandpas that grandmas were killed by covid in there rest homes, need to have an explosive talk with don vito cuomo face to face! his vaccine mandate about a date that he will allow nyorkers to receive this life saving vaccine, just adds to his mass murders of our elderly.
Cuomo, you are a murderer! How many people have you killed in those nursing homes! You do know where murderers go when they die, huh Cuomo? They go straight to Hell! No murderer will ever enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Thank God for you that my Father was not victum in one of the nursing homes that you directly sent covid infected patients too, because I would not be able to walk through the Gates of Heaven when I die. You damn murderer!