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All week, the Trump administration has been distributing the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine across the country to inoculate nursing home residents and health care workers. And as expected, especially considering distribution on this scale had never been tried before, there had been a few hiccups that had been worked out or were being worked out. But according to conspiracy-peddling Chris “Fredo” Cuomo, the administration was doing “nothing” but also keeping certain states from getting doses.
“So, we're less than a week into the distribution and the vaccination effort is already struggling,” Cuomo proclaimed partway through Thursday’s PrimeTime, as he proceeded to cite six states whose shipments were getting reduced next week:
Six states say they aren't getting what the White House promised. Nobody seems to have a good answer why these six, Rhode Island, Iowa, Illinois, Washington, Michigan, and Oregon, only one of which was even scheduled to get enough for those first in line by the end of the year. Why are they being shorted? Why now?
We're not talking a handful of doses here, either. Next week's shipments are going to be cut between 30 and 50 percent.
With no consideration to how much those states had already received, or the possibility the doses needed to be diverted to other critical locations, Cuomo took a Pfizer statement out of context to place the blame on President Trump personally.
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