NY has administered just 1/3 of its COVID vaccine supply as its expiration date nears
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Don’t blame me, I didn’t do anything!
“It’s chaos out there. The state has no idea what it’s doing,” said Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin, particularly taking aim at the leadership of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
“The Cuomo handling of the vaccine is blithering incompetence.”
McLaughlin said that county governments like his have been largely sidelined during the vaccine’s launch, with Cuomo and his team micromanaging the process from Albany, getting bogged down in details rather than putting the jabs into the arms of those who need them.
“This administration can’t administer the vaccines that are in its hands,” he said.
And Granny Killer’s defense? Trump hasn’t supplied the state with enough of the vaccine, so that what, more can spoil in the refrigerator?
The states have had a year to prepare and set up systems for administration of a potential vaccine, and while admittedly they bought the “experts” claim that Trump was lying about a vaccine appearing by December, they could and should have had a plan in place for when vaccines were available. Many governors now say they didn’t have the money to do so, and, again, they blame Trump, but there’s always money in a state’s budget; it’s how they prioritize their spending, and in this case. they put COVID vaccination at the bottom of the list.
