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Why Trump doesn’t want to deliver the vaccine to New York right away


United States President Donald Trump has no intention of distributing the coronavirus vaccine in New York State, due to political and media quarrel with local authorities (illustrative image from September 23). (Photo: Joshua Roberts via Getty Images)

CORONAVIRUS – Until January 20, he is still the president, and he intends to show it. Friday, November 13, Donald Trump spoke to the press to give a rave review on the search for a vaccine against covid-19, and more generally its management of the epidemic (which nearly 250,000 dead in the USA).

“The cases are numerous, but it’s only because we have the best screening program in the world,” said Donald Trump, for example, as the country approaches the eleven million cases detected. Above all, the outgoing president rejoiced of Pfizer’s progress concerning a future vaccine against the coronavirus.

“Millions of doses will be distributed very soon. We are all ready, we are just waiting for the final approval. As soon as it is good, the vaccine will be available to the entire population, ”said Donald Trump, referring to the month of April as the envisaged deadline, he who had repeatedly promised that it would be available before the end of 2020.

Everyone … except New York State

Except that Donald Trump was not actually talking about the whole country as he immediately clarified: “All the population except for a few places such as New York State where, for political reasons, the governor has decided that he wanted to take his time with the vaccine, that he did not have complete confidence in the source of the vaccine, and especially not in this presidency and this government. ”

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This article originally appeared on The HuffPost and has been updated.

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