I think you have 2 factors. Governor Cuomo & Mayor DeBlasio hate each other. BdB is all rhetoric and mildly incompetent but means well. Cuomo is a very clever p

I think you have 2 factors. Governor Cuomo & Mayor DeBlasio hate each other. BdB is all rhetoric and mildly incompetent but means well. Cuomo is a very clever political machine, and doesn’t want BdB to get any wins. Additionally there’s a lot of state vs local control issues for NYC where NYC either doesn’t have authority or the authority is nebulous so Cuomo can claim things aren’t BdB’s call. There have been numerous times during the pandemic where BdB called for something like closing schools, etc where Cuomo issued a stinging rebuke and then made the call himself 2-3 days later. Secondly, this is a national issue. As much as NY is a basket case.. the state by state stats are quite similar. Depending on the week NY is outperforming lots of states in the vax distribution. Relative to Feds, State governments are not that big and do not have a lot of idle capacity. Whatever idle capacity we did have has been taken out by PPE distribution, testing roll out and dealing with all the sick. Realistically this is a FEMA/NatGuard issue at this point. We can’t expect to have any nurse capacity for vax considering hospitals are all full. It’s a shame there was no planning for that in advance, but par for the course with DJT. Fortunately it sounds like Biden is going to pull the trigger on that in first 100 days.