NYS governor criticizes federal gov’t vaccination plan

New York, Nov 10 : New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo once again criticized the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination plan as “flawed” and expressed concern that some disadvantaged communities might be deprived of the opportunity to be vaccinated in time.
“They’re going to take this vaccine and they’re going to go through the private mechanism: through hospitals, through drug market chains, et cetera. That’s going to be slow and that’s going to bypass the communities that we call health care deserts,” he said on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported.
“Why do we have such a disparity in the infection rate and the mortality rate in COVID? Because some communities don’t have the same access to health care,” the governor told Good Morning America on national television network ABC.
“The Trump administration denied COVID so they were never ready for it. There was no mobilization of the government,” he added.
Cuomo said that he has been talking to other governors across the nation on how to shape the Trump administration’s vaccine plan “to fix it or stop it before it does damage.” During the past months, Cuomo has repeatedly slammed the federal government’s vaccination endeavour and said that it has flaws. The National Governors Association, which he chairs, has sent letters to the Trump administration to press for explanation or improvement of its plan.