Cuomo Won’t Get Vaccine Until His Group’s Turn In Black, Hispanic, Poor Communities

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January 4th, 2021

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is urging New Yorkers to get the coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available to them. “This is not only an individual responsibility; it is a community obligation,” he said. Cuomo is seen above holding a sample of empty packaging for the COVID-19 vaccine during a news conference in Albany last month.

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Updated at 12 p.m. ET

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed that he will not take the COVID-19 vaccine until it is available for his group in Black, Hispanic and poor communities around his state.

Cuomo spoke about the “many injustices in our society” that the pandemic has exposed, while also calling out racism as a public health crisis, during pre-recorded remarks on Sunday to Abyssinian Baptist Church, a historic Black church in Harlem.

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