BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN) – Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested Friday that the requirement to have a vaccine in order to attend a Bills home game should be seen as a “probability” rather than a “possibility”.
“I’m not going to try and guess what’s going to happen months from now,” Cuomo said. “And what should the best policy be months from now. We’ll find out the facts at that time and make a determination on facts.
Months are a lifetime here.”
Cuomo’s comments come three days removed from Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz requiring vaccines for those going to a game. The governor believes that Poloncarz does not have the legal right to require fans have a vaccine in order to attend a home game, though the county executive believes he does because Erie County owns Highmark Stadium.
“I think his recommendation is plausible,” Cuomo said. “My position is that it’s premature to determine what is a smart policy in a few months because you don’t know the facts.”
Cuomo said that a discussion point could be that a testing mandate could still be required.
“I’m not rejecting the suggestion,” Cuomo said. “It’s a theoretical possibility. There are other possibilities like what we did before with testing and a combination of vaccinations and testing we’re doing right now for events. You could either be vaccinated or take a rapid test or PCR test within a certain period of time. There are a variety of models that can be deployed once we know the facts.”