Steelmanning Cuomo’s Body Count

BJ Campbell
Handwaving Freakoutery
8 min readNov 12, 2020

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Governor Andrew Cuomo kicked a hornet’s nest three days ago when he said that it was “good news /bad news” that Pfizer had developed a vaccine for Covid-19, because it was going to be released before Joe Biden was president.

Here’s the video:

Here’s a complete transcript:

STEPHANOPOULOS: “Let’s talk about that now with New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. Governor Cuomo, thanks for coming back again this morning. We were talking yesterday about the importance of vaccine distribution in the next two months. What do you make of this news?”

CUOMO: “Well, it’s good news/bad news. The good news is the Pfizer tests look good and we’ll have a vaccine shortly. The bad news is that it’s about two months before Joe Biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan. The vaccine plan is very important and it’s probably the most ambitious undertaking since Covid began. Just to put it in focus, we did 10 million Covid tests in this nation over seven months scrambling doing everything we can. We now have to do 330 million…

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