Then Gov. Andrew Cuomo withheld COVID-19 vaccines at a mass vaccination site at Citi Field amid his feud with then-Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2021, Politico reported.

Cuomo withheld vaccinations from the facility for several weeks, upset that de Blasio, his longtime nemesis, would be the one to open the site, a former de Blasio administrator told Politico.

“It was a constant tension throughout the vaccine process — managing Cuomo’s expectations that de Blasio couldn’t touch the vaccine,” a source told Politico.

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