NY setting up task force to review vaccine safety

"We're going to put together our own committee headed by the health department for them to review the vaccine so I can tell New Yorkers that it's safe to take," Cuomo said.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he may or may not approve any new, more stringent FDA standards for an emergency authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine, saying such a proposal would appear political.

Trump has repeatedly said a vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, could be ready for distribution ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election.