NEW YORK (VINnews) — While many in the U.S. are celebrating the news released by drug company pfizer on Monday, that initial results from human trials are proving effective, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is singing a different tune.
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Cuomo appeared on “Good Morning America” on Monday morning, where he made his comments. The governor acknowledged that the vaccine trial results are “looking good” and that the vaccine may very well be “available shortly.” However he blasted President Trump’s vaccine plan, calling it “flawed” and even said: “We can’t let this vaccination plan go forward the way that Trump and his administration is designing it.”
Cuomo called the breakthroigh “bad news” and said the vaccine rollout plan needed to be stopped until Joe Biden takes over, otherwise it will cause “damage.”
“The bad news is that it’s about two months before Joe Biden takes over, and this means [the Trump] administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan,” Cuomo said.
That plan, he said, is “flawed.”
“I believe it learns nothing from the past,” Cuomo claimed. “They’re basically going to have the private providers do it, and that’s going to leave out all sorts of communities that were left out the first time when COVID ravaged them.”
!@NYGovCuomo says it’s “bad news” Pfizer’s Covid vaccine came during the Trump Admin; says he’s going to work w/ other governors to “stop” distribution “before it does damage" pic.twitter.com/ULembNWokW
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2020
This isn’t the first the governor made such comments. Back in September Cuomo said he would slow down the release of the vaccine, due to his distrust of President Trump, claiming he was “politicizing” the issue.
Trump hit back on Cuomo, calling him a “lowlife,” and said the vaccine had been developed by the “finest labs in the world.”
Cuomo says that his issue with the Trump administration’s vaccine distribution plan, is that it will be sent out via the “private mechanism,” which includes hospitals and drugstore chains.
Cuomo alleges that communities in “health care deserts” who lack any of these facilities nearby will not be well serviced.
“You have two months, and you can’t let this vaccination go forward the way the Trump administration is designing it — because Biden can’t undo it two months later,” he said.
“We’ll be in the midst of it. And I’ve been talking to governors across the nation about that. How can we shape the Trump administration vaccine plan to fix it or stop it before it does damage.”
The Trump administration is on track to purchase $2 billion worth of vaccines from Pfizer when they are ready, as part of their plan to fast-track delivery of a COVID-19 vaccine.
What a dirty politician this ego maniac Cuomo is.
Dictator the joke of a governor Cuomo cares zero about human lives.
He should be the last person to talk about anything regarding Covid-19.
Under his leadership thousands and thousands of people died. Many many of deaths could of been avoided had Cuomo taken it as seriously as his bickering with Trump and De Blasio.
This man should have a full investigation.
The liberal disgusting media including Yiddish reading papers are giving him a free ride.
I just wish he gets the virus before the vaccine is ready to use and he joins the elderly people he murdered in the nursing homes.
Trump is correct. Cuomo is a low life, and has done much to prove that in the past year in so many ways. It is Cuomo that politicizes things, and that is beyond disgusting and irresponsible. If he feels there are flaws to the system that Trump has yet to detail, he needs to point out the shortcomings. He hints that Trump wants to deny the vaccine and murder more people. Bupkis. How low can he stoop. All he should do is point to the flaw, publicly ask that it be addressed. I find anything Trump proposed eons more reliable than the packs of lies and bullying he inflicted on the state and on our community. I wish him speedy exit from office and retirement from politics where he has committed to much harm.
He is willing to postpone the vaccine due to politics. He should be charged for multiple manslaughter and murder.
Ever since he imposed the insane lockdown on Jewish neighborhoods and blamed the republican wins upstate solely on Deblasio I call this man Evil Cuomo. Now I call him Evil and deranged Coumo. I hope no forgets this next election day
Imoeace Coumo for abuse of Power. When will you libs up in Albany get it? The man has been praised as mafia boos against covid. Its all image image and ego
Is he for real? Maybe he should take the money that was collected in covid fines and buy his own vaccines for the state and give them out however he wants. Maybe Michael Bloomberg wants to fund them. At least his money will be well spent this time.
Trump’s vaccine plan has nothing to do with the good news from Pfizer today. Pfizer turned down government help to run the studies needed to access efficacy. That way it owns the vaccine along with its German partner, Biontech. So both Cuomo and Trump’s cheering section got it wrong. This is a triumph of capitalism, of globalism, and of immigration. (Biontech was founded by children of Turkish immigrants to Germany. Pfizer was founded in the 19th century by German immigrants to the US.)