You're close, but you're off. Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom said they will not
accept "the federal government's opinion" about the safety of a vaccine. That means that the FDA & CDC can promote a vaccine all they want, but NY & Cali will wait 2x as long as people in other states, because their governers are sending political signals to voters that the federal government can't be trusted. The FDA & the CDC are both parts of the Federal government.
I don't know about the FDA but the CDC does seem to be compromised under the trump administration so I understand Cuomo's concern. Trump was politicizing the vaccine at the debate again a few hours ago.
Cuomo is on the side of a safe and effective vaccine.
No political figure in New York State has ever been as hated as Andrew Cuomo. Not even Elliot Spitzer. Spitzer was the kind of Democrat governor I could deal with; not a far-left nutjob like Cuomo.
Looking from the outside his approval looks around 50/50. Pretty good for a politician.
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