seen from New York, Joe Biden is too optimistic

The US president said Monday, January 25 that the United States could be close to group immunity in the summer of 2021. But in New York, Mayor Bill De Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats like Biden, complain about not getting enough vaccines from the federal government.

Joe Biden paints a picture of the American vaccination campaign “Much more pink” than the one portrayed by New York’s Democratic leaders. In one of its January 26 edition, the New York Daily News highlighted this cacophony between the US President on the one hand and the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, and Governor Andrew Cuomo on the other.

The United States is currently administering around 1.2 million doses per day and Joe Biden said on Monday January 25 that this figure would soon reach 1.5 million doses and that vaccines would be available. “For all Americans by spring”, observes the New York tabloid. “I am convinced that by this summer we will be close to having achieved group immunity”, also affirmed the American president.

An optimism not really shared by Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, who for their part warned “Against a shortage of vaccines” in the city and state of New York.

“Lack of flexibility”

While de Blasio, Democratic mayor of the Big Apple, had promised to administer 1 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine before the end of January, the federal government “Shipped fewer doses than expected”, underline the Daily News. Result, Sunday, January 24, New York City had administered only 628,831 doses. According to de Blasio, his city “Came up against a supply crisis and a lack of flexibility” federal authorities.

Statewide, where 1.5 million doses have so far been injected, Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo has also lamented a supply of vaccines “Terribly weak” and put pressure on Washington:

Week after week, we see that the demand for vaccines and our ability to distribute them is rapidly exceeding the federal supply. ”

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