New York governor Andrew Cuomo (AP Images)

An­drew Cuo­mo says New York will un­der­take its own vac­cine re­view process, and wouldn’t rec­om­mend trust­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment

The con­cerns keep mount­ing over Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s politi­ciza­tion of the FDA and oth­er fed­er­al agen­cies guid­ing the de­vel­op­ment of a safe and ef­fec­tive vac­cine. And to­day, the telegenic New York gov­er­nor An­drew Cuo­mo ap­peared to in­tro­duce even more pol­i­tics in­to the mat­ter — lat­est in an on­go­ing se­ries of in­ci­dents that have cast the proud­ly in­de­pen­dent FDA in stark­ly po­lit­i­cal terms.

Dur­ing his dai­ly press con­fer­ence Cuo­mo said that the state will re­view any coro­n­avirus vac­cines ap­proved by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, cit­ing a lack of trust in the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion. The an­nounce­ment comes one day af­ter Trump ac­cused the FDA of mak­ing an “ex­treme­ly po­lit­i­cal” move in propos­ing stricter vac­cine guid­ance.

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