civil war - NY governor coumo "you can't trust the federal government, i wouldn't trust Trump's pre election vaccine" - cuomo

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In a wide-ranging Thursday press conference, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo discussed the state’s plans to prepare for an eventual COVID-19 vaccine, called for congressional investigations into Trump administration’s COVID-19 response, and continued his pitch to the federal government for relief funding to states hit hard by the pandemic.

“Unfortunately, we can no longer trust the federal government,” one of Cuomo’s Powerpoint slides read during his presentation. He pointed to a poll that found a majority of Americans would not take a COVID-19 vaccine introduced ahead of the November election.

“And quite frankly, I’m not going to trust the federal government’s opinion, and I wouldn’t recommend to New Yorkers trusting the federal government’s opinion,” he said of a potential vaccine, suggesting that any fast-tracked vaccine could be unsafe due to it being rushed to market ahead of the election