SHARE: Pandemic déjà vu includes an ongoing surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations, new efforts by President Donald Trump to downplay the severity of the crisis and renewed attempts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to attract the national limelight. “New York will lead the way,” Cuomo proclaimed in mid-November as he promised a nation-leading vaccine distribution effort. It’s like the spring all over again, except vaccines are the new ventilators and the governor is enlisting advocacy groups – rather than literal troops – to help distribute them. “The weapon that wins the war is the vaccination,” Cuomo said Wednesday of just how high the stakes are for the Empire State. “The vaccination will take months – best-case scenario (is) June.”