New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo continued his partisan crusade to discredit President Trump’s pandemic strategy. His latest complaint… The president and drug makers are moving too fast to deliver new life-saving vaccines to the American people.
The Democrat governor commented in a Tuesday radio interview that “money and ego,” rather than safety and efficacy are the drivers behind the quick progress.
When Hot97’s Ebro Darden alleged “nurses are saying this has been rushed,” and that they don’t trust the vaccine, Cuomo remarked: “Why is it moving so fast? Two reasons: money and ego.”
“The first drug company that has the vaccine, that is big money,” he said. “Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, they all know this is billions of dollars, whoever gets to the market first. So it’s in their economic interest to push this fast.”
Despite the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed goal to “produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines” to the American public with the aim to distribute initial doses by January 2021, Cuomo stated that Trump “had nothing to do with it.”
“You didn’t need Trump to tell the vaccine companies you should develop a vaccine,” he said, citing the President’s ego for the rapid pace. “On the way out the door he wants to be able to say, I solved Covid because I discovered a vaccine.”
The governor also asserted that Trump will push the FDA to give the vaccines emergency authorization for use, “nobody is going to trust him saying it’s a safe vaccine.”
Which, Cuomo says, is why he’s setting up a review panel to examine the drug before he will allow distribution to begin in New York. “Then I can say to New Yorkers, it’s safe, you don’t have to trust Trump, because we don’t, but we had our own panel, they say it’s safe and now we’re going to administer it because it’s safe.”
Even though Operation Warp Speed’s pledge to give the American people “vaccine or therapeutic doses purchased with US taxpayer dollars” at no cost and partnerships with 60% of the nation’s pharmacies to increase access to underserved areas, Cuomo claims Black and Brown communities will be excluded under the program.
“Trump’s way is [to] give the private sector companies the drugs, they’ll distribute it,” he remarked. “Yeah, that takes care of the rich and the white communities, leaves out the poorer and the Black and the Brown community.”
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What a no-class guido, just like his bro Fredo!
Not right to denounce a particular ethnic group, but rather comment on his policies and stupidity.
Yes it is fine to say something about there Ethnicity, Especially When it is new York’s Guido, and brother fredo The two sorry Rich Waps Waps. and anyone with a brain knows it WAPS are very Sorry Italians and super Big mouths !!!!!!
You are a buffoon and terribly ignorant! I am of Italian heritage and it is NOT right to condemn an ethnicity because of 2 people as there are many of the same heritage that do not agree with those tow idiots. Your language is common, hateful and serves no good!
not all italians are crooks.. but over 30% cheat ot their taxes in Italy……. not genetic, but perhaps cultural
from the ethic group that brought the mafia to the usa
When people elect a person because of his party instead on his or her qualifications we end up with politicians like this moron, he praised the President during the “pandemic” and sued him shortly afterward, I am not sure that he is able to put is own shorts on without help what a complete jackass.
He will get Harris to help him if he can remember her name that long and quit smelling his finger so much.Every time he makes a speach u see him reach up and rub his nose.
Cuomo is and always will be a complete jackass. Who the heck is he to determine that drug companies like Pfizer have not found a reliable vaccine and who is he to deny New Yorkers the vaccine?? Then he tries to play the race card with its distribution- such a spiteful, typical democrat spewing fake news! He is NOT following the science by closing schools as most doctors and the CDC have stated children should be back in school and it is overwhelmingly safe to do so. Not New Yorkers in general, but New York City dwellers need to wise up and oust this pathetic, dictator governor out of office.
If he were following science (I don’t advocate this for anyone) we know the WuFlu is an aerosol it travels 15 feet not six before ‘landing.’ So the social distancing you’ve been doing is wrong. To my mind we didn’t do any of these with other pandemics and shouldn’t be doing it now. But do what you like.
They would be better off with a pig .
Talk about egos. Cuomo you are the dumbest politician.
You are a stupid jackass
That’s funny coming out of his mouth. Since Cuomo is all about Money and Power which is worse than Money and Ego. Andrew Cuomo is a pitiful Democratic Peon who knows nothing of Morality and Forgiveness. He has locked up his own people and instead of helping his people in the right way, he killed thousands in the nursing home fiasco as we all know… He has blood on his hands and he doesn’t even know how to wash it off cause he can’t….. Idiotisis is taking over the Democratic Ranks sadly….
he is a fool! killed thousands with his stupidly
He’s worse than his dad!!
Cuomo saying “It’s safe, we checked it first.” Is the reason same as COVID 17 failed. It could be taken care of. Of course he’ll play on the fears of black and brown people that’s what D’s know.
Has Guido not killed enough Seniors . by sending Covid-19 into the nursing homes while Letting all New Yorkers how he is Protecting his MOM . and Yes he is a truly BIG mouth . that knows nothing about the Vaccine that’s way over the idiot’s WAPS head !!
He is such a dumba$$, but so are most liberals who would cut off their nose to spite their face. Guarantee you if Hillary, or Joe, had been in the WH this year, we would not even be close to a vaccine and the economy would be in the tank, and there would have been double the deaths because they would not have shut the travel down from China and Europe as quickly as DJT did. They proved that merely by their words in March and April.
This country is in for some real pain if Biden/Harris run this country, especially if they are able to re-cheat their way to victory in GA in the Senate races. Maybe, by some prayer-filled miracle, the voter fraud allegations will cause the needed changes to keep DJT in office.
I am guessing cuomo domo didn’t kill enough people with covid so he is holding back the vaccine to see if he can kill a few more. What a piece of shit. People of NY should not be allowed to leave the state they voted for him they should have to deal with the stupid democrat instead of bringing their ignorance to another state. That’s the real virus.
Why does anyone pay attention to this disgusting, lying, unethical, immoral hypocrite?
The NY Govenor is an asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cuomo needs to go hide in a corner with his tail between his legs. For someone who sent thousands of elderly people to a certain Covid Death how dare you even speak about a dangerous vaccine. You are a murderer and a low class piece of garbage. You have destroyed New York and i am certain the family name of Cuomo has been drug through the gutter where it remains.
Mr. Governor, if you feel it’s not safe then don’t take it. You have no medical background. You have no right to tell people what to do. Stick a sock in it!
Please someone STUFF a dirty sock in this idiots mouth and make sure to RECALL his sorry ass!
The only reason that Cuomo didn’t want the vaccine in record time is because he wont be able to have as much control over the people of NY if the virus is under control. Wake up New Yorker’s , Get a new Governor and Mayor!!
why is this pos still in office get rid of this jerk