New York Governor Suggests Delaying Access to COVID-19 Vaccines

During the Good Morning America @GMA TV show early on November 9, 2020, New York's Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said “The vaccine (distribution) plan is very important and it's probably the most ambitious undertaking since COVID began.”

And, during the conversation with ABC's Geroge Stephanopoulos, Gov. Cuomo indicated delaying experimental COVID-19 vaccine distributions until after the next US presidential inauguration, currently scheduled for late January 2021.

Previously, on November 1, 2020, Governor Cuomo’s press statement “criticized the current federal plan for relying on the existing influenza vaccination infrastructure and private healthcare entities, such as pharmacies, which have historically resulted in under-vaccination rates and worse health outcomes in communities of color.”