ALBANY – Gov. Andrew Cuomo describes in his new E-book on the COVID-19 pandemic how he tried to balance more resources for New York last spring with his disdain for the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic.
One night, he wrote in the e-book Tuesday, telling his three daughters at the governor’s mansion of his plight after President Donald Trump played a video on April 19 at a Cuomo press conference praising the component of the federal response.
“I had to think that there is a difference between politics and government and that I do not have the luxury of operating through my own political or non-public objective when it comes to doing my job as governor,” Cuomo writes in the book. AMERICAN CRISIS: COVID-19″ pandemic leadership lessons, according to an excerpt provided to USA Network TODAY New York.
But Cuomo’s comes to light at a dangerous time because of his paintings as governor.
Coronavirus infection rates in New York City have continued to rise and hot spots in New York, parts of the Hudson Valley, and parts of the north of the state threaten to alter the state’s ability to some of the country’s lowest rates in recent months.
New York also has the maximum number of COVID deaths in the country with more than 25,500 since March, adding at least 6,500 in retirement homes.
The book, which files a tough complaint about Trump and blames the death toll in New York on out-of-control visitors to Europe, criticizes Cuomo’s attempt to capitalize on the virus’s attention to New York and Cuomo, whose COVID briefings were a must on national cable television.
“Will there be a component of the moment with families who have lost the elderly in retirement homes?There are thousands of us who still don’t have @NYGovCuomo’s kind answers that we’re benefiting from their deaths,” said Janice Dean, a senior Fox News meteorologist who died in nursing homes in New York City, wrote Sunday on Twitter.
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Cuomo, now in his third term, is on a national television tour to announce the book, appearing on CBS Sunday Morning, THE TODAY and Tuesday live with Kelly and Ryan.
The governor has also scheduled virtual events and at least one webinar to publicize his book.
The one-hour webinar, with giant law firm Skadden Arps, generated complaints from supporters of government reform, as the company promised a copy of Cuomo’s e-book to the player on the call, which included more than 400 of its employees.
The Democratic governor refused to say how much he paid for the e-book, noting that it will appear in his form of monetary disclosure published next year. His workplace stated that he had won the approval of the Joint National Public Ethics Commission to write the e-book until he promoted it with state resources, but refused to publish the ethics notice.
This is Cuomo’s e-book since taking over the workplace in 2011. His memoir, All Things Possible: Setbacks and Successes in Politics and Life, has sold only 3,800 copies since its release in 2014, according to NPD BookScan. He paid about $750, 000 for that.
He said the last e-book talked about his observations on the pandemic and what New York had learned, and emphasized that it was not a victory round.
“It’s not a party at all. The game’s not over. It’s halftime. We didn’t lose, it’s just halftime. And we succeeded. But we also make a lot of mistakes,” Cuomo said on Monday. Today.
“And when we move on to the locker room as a country and communicate from the first part, the more we’ll be informed because if we don’t get the lessons informed, the part of the moment becomes worse, I can tell you. “
There are already symptoms of what’s to come.
As of Monday, New York had known an average of 7. 4 new instances of COVID-19 consistent with 100,000 citizens in the past week.
This number remains one of the lowest in the country, and New Hampshire, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont are better off.
But the New York rate still represents a significant increase in recent weeks.
Will there be a component at the moment with families who have lost the elderly in retirement homes?There are thousands of us who do not yet have the kind and correct answers @NYGovCuomo we benefit from his death.
New York had kept the number below four average instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants from June 13 to September 20, according to state knowledge research through USA TODAY Network New York.
It’s continued to grow ever since. By the end of last week, the state had eclipsed the 7th since May 30, which is still a long way from the peak of the epidemic in March and April, when the average number peaked at 49. 7.
Hospitalizations have more than doubled in the last six weeks.
A total of 878 more people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York City on Sunday, according to Cuomo’s office. This is 114% of the 410 hospitalized on September 5, the lowest number in the state since the pandemic began in March.
New York has still completely detailed the extent of the death toll related to retirement homes.
The state has not yet detailed the number of additional deaths of nursing home citizens who have been transferred to hospitals. The state reported only the number of deaths at home, attributing those who died in hospitals as hospital deaths, which critics say has generally reduced. statistics of deaths in nursing homes.
Therefore, the challenge, and a March 25 order that has been overdulled since it prevented nursing homes from preventing the return of eligible citizens, propelled Cuomo on his virtual e-book tour while in Albany.
“He blew it. You may have put others in the conference center or hospital. I had no idea!” trump wrote Monday, referring to a Navy hospital moored in New York Harbor and a transit hospital at the Javits Center at the height of the pandemic.
A state Health Department report commissioned through Cuomo found that most nursing home deaths were the result that staff and visitors brought the virus to homes, not on the March order, which was finally canceled in May.
In reaction to Trump, Cuomo’s senior adviser and spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, said that “Trump’s own federal directives prevented this at the height of the public fitness crisis and that we had the beds when they felt comfortable. “The military ship, he noted, never supplied for the required point of care through patients with COVID-19, he said.
“These are the rabies viruses and COVID relief drugs that speak,” Azzopardi tweeted trump.
In the book, Cuomo talks about the problematic federal reaction and how he has adapted to it, first seeking to juggle Trump’s pacification and trick him with more resources.
But the Democratic governor wrote that he finally took another path with Trump, whom he met at the White House and spoke to when the pandemic was directly in New York City.
“My only remaining option is to go the other way,” Cuomo wrote of his latest nepasstious tactics. “When Trump said he wanted gratitude, he expressed his insatiable desire for affirmation. Going the other way meant brazenly criticizing him. “
Cuomo added: “If I needed an affirmation, it meant he couldn’t settle for criticism. My weapon was to criticize his failure and carelessness. I’ve done it and hard. He hated critics and couldn’t stand them, and that discomfort caused him. “deliver more for New York than we would have received otherwise. A federal stance sick, unsettling and unethical, but in war we follow the prevailing strategy. “
On CBS Sunday Morning, Cuomo met with his three daughters, all in his twenties and all those who lived with him at the Executive Mansion in Albany at the height of the pandemic in New York.
“Sometimes I’d come home and you might see it in it,” said 25-year-old Cara Kennedy Cuomo. “And you heard, a kind of deep, deep breath that takes. And then you’d know he’s under pressure. “
The e-book has also fueled a new circular of rumors about whether Cuomo has presidential ambitions or if he is interested in being one of Joe Biden’s most sensible aides if he defeats Trump in November.
An Axios report warned that Cuomo could simply be a U. S. attorney general if Biden wins.
But Cuomo denied any interest in returning to Washington, where he served as U. S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration.
“I don’t running for president, I don’t apply for vice president, I don’t need to move to Washington,” Cuomo said TODAY.
“I’m just giving you a transparent recommendation like your governor and that’s where I am. “