PUBLISHED 6:00 PM ET Jan. 22, 2021
PUBLISHED 6:00 PM EST Jan. 22, 2021
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Vaccinating 19 million or so New Yorkers was never going to be an easy task. States across the country have struggled with the rollout of the distribution to end the coronavirus pandemic. Supplies have lagged far behind demand.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has blamed the federal government for the supply bottleneck. New York is going "week to week" after its initial batch doses was exhausted on Friday, he said at a news conference. Local officials, however, are pointing to Albany, not Washington, for the problems.
Larry Schwartz, a longtime advisor to Cuomo brought in to help handle the vaccine distribution, said in an interview with Spectrum News the fault lies with the failed Trump administration's rollout.