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Governor Cuomo Briefing January 18 2021
Day 324Start 6:35
NEW:
-- Partners in vaccine distribution: Walgreens, CVS, Kinney Drugs, Affiliated Physicians,
Pharmascript, MHA
-- Gov Cuomo sent a letter to HHS Sec Azar accusing him of lying to the American people, creating public chaos that makes a bad situation worse
-- States can buy Pfizer vaccine directly without breaking federal law, which is up to Pfizer
-- Gov Cuomo will not attend the presidential inauguration in order to attend to state safety
-- new testing is being done for the UK strain, but take longer due to the necessary genetic mapping;
-- there are reportedly new South African and Brazilian strains but no tests for those, and no travel bans