ALBANY COUNTY — As President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the federal government was purchasing 200 million more doses of COVID-19, Governor Andrew Cuomo had an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace straddling that announcement.

“I say amen, and the American people should say amen,” Cuomo told Wallace after Biden spoke.

Biden said, with the added doses, by the end of the summer there would be enough vaccines to inoculate 300 million Americans, nearly the entire population.

Half of those new doses will be purchased from Moderna and half from Pfizer and BioNTech, increasing the nation’s supply to 600 million. Each of those vaccines requires two shots.

Albany County’s health commissioner, Elizabeth Whalen, has repeatedly said that, as residents are clamoring for the vaccine, demand exceeds supply. Such is the case across the nation.

Cuomo, who heads the National Governors Association, had a call on Tuesday with Jeff Zients, who heads the nation’s COVID-19 Task Force; Rochelle Walensky, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and General Gustave Perna, the chief operation officer of Operation Warp Speed.

States have been in charge of vaccinating their residents as the federal government has distributed vaccine based on population.

“The allocation will go up 16 percent but even more importantly, Nicolle, we can count on that allocation for the next three weeks,” Cuomo told Wallace. “We’ve been going week to week and you really can’t plan and schedule when you don’t know what you’re going to get next week.”

Cuomo reiterated his complaints about the Trump administration adding people 65 and over to its guidance on who is eligible to be vaccinated. In New York, he said, 7 million people are eligible with a current supply of 250,000 doses a week.

After Biden’s announcement, Cuomo said, “It is going to take six months to do this. That’s competence and it’s honesty and it’s what the president said he was going to bring, and let it now recalibrate the public expectation and slow down all this confusion and anxiety that we feel among the American people.”

Cuomo also praised Biden’s recent implementation of testing international travelers. “These new strains are 30 percent to 70 percent more transmissible. That’s a problem and that’s why you’ll see those numbers going up,” Cuomo said.

Later on Tuesday, Cuomo told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the governors thought Biden’s approach was “great news.” States had been going it alone, he said. “Now you have a new federal government and a totally different approach. They came in after six days, they said we want to partner, and you have a competent, professional federal government that tells the truth.”

On the call with Zients, Cuomo said, the governors had questions about how much federal aid will be provided in the distribution through agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and how states can use the National Guard.

“We got good news on both,” said Cuomo. “The federal government will reimburse for the National Guard and FEMA, they’ll pay all the federal share, which is a very big deal for us.”

He also said, “Incompetent government can kill people. This is not a joke, and more people died here than needed to.”

Newest numbers

Three more Albany county residents have died of COVID-19, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said in a press release on Tuesday morning.

The latest victims are a woman in her seventies, a man in his eighties, and a man in his nineties. Their deaths bring the county’s toll to 299.

As of Tuesday morning, Albany County has had 17,452 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 150 new cases since Monday.

Of the new cases, 107 did not have a clear source of infection identified, 35 had close contact with someone infected with the disease, and seven were health-care workers or residents of congregate settings.

The five-day average for new daily positives has decreased to 199.6 from 225.4. There are now 1,636 active cases in the county, down from 1,708 on Monday.

The number of county residents under mandatory quarantine decreased to 2,504 from 2,700. So far, 51,984 residents have completed quarantine. Of those, 15,816 had tested positive and recovered. That is an increase of 213 recoveries since Monday.

Eleven new hospitalizations overnight brings the current total to 169 — a net decrease of four patients hospitalized with COVID-19. There are 16 patients in intensive-care units, one more than Monday.

According to a Tuesday release from the governor’s office, the Capital Region has administered 90,552 of the 117,640 vaccine doses it has been given — 77 percent.

Statewide, 74 percent of doses have been administered.

Of the state’s 10 regions, the Capital Region continues to have the worst rates for available hospital beds and available ICU beds.

Currently, 483 Capital Region residents, which is 0.04 percent of the region’s population, are hospitalized with COVID-19, leaving 24 percent of hospital beds available.

Statewide, 0.05 percent of New Yorkers are hospitalized, leaving 32 percent of hospital beds available.

Currently, 190 of the Capital Region’s 254 ICU beds are filled, leaving 20 percent available.

Statewide, 26 percent of ICU beds are available.

As of Monday, the Capital Region’s infection rate, as a seven-day average, was 6.28 percent.

Statewide, the positivity rate is 5.81 percent.

Albany County, as of Jan. 25, had a seven-day rolling average of 7.1 percent, according to the state’s dashboard.