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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he won’t let President Trump “bully” New Yorkers over the COVID-19 vaccine.
“That’s how this president operates. He bullies,” Cuomo said in a Saturday news briefing. “I’m going to tell the truth. I’m going to protect the people of the state and New Yorkers don’t back down to bullies.”
The latest salvo in the ongoing feud came after the president tweeted earlier that only states that use the vaccine immediately would get it.
Trump also proclaimed “I LOVE NEW YORK!”
“I love New York,” Cuomo countered. “If that’s what the president thinks then he just has an abusive personality. He has been hostile to New York from day one.”
Trump, in a Rose Garden press conference Friday, said New York wouldn’t get the vaccine because Cuomo has said he doesn’t trust it and wanted to evaluate it before distribution.
Cuomo again insisted yesterday a state-convened panel would immediately look at any vaccine and there would be no delay in getting it to New Yorkers.
“Send me a vaccine today, I will distribute it this afternoon,” he said.
Cuomo also suggested New York City should “seriously consider” looking at the rate of COVID-19 cases in individual schools rather than shutting down the whole system when the positivity rate hits 3 percent.
“Add to your calculus a positivity rate in the school, because if the school is not spreading the virus or if the school has a much lower positivity rate than the surrounding area, then the school is not part of the problem,” he said.
City officials said Saturday schools will remain open Monday after the citywide positivity rate, measured on a seven-day rolling average, dropped slightly on Friday.
Statewide, the number of positive results for 184,162 tests processed Friday was 2.57 percent, excluding hot zones, a decrease from 2.6 percent a day earlier. The positivity rate in hot zones stood at 4.83 percent.
There were 24 deaths, 1,788 people hospitalized and 5,388 new cases in the state on Friday.
Source: New York Post
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