Amazon, other major stores quiet on Cuomo's book as nursing home controversy grows
The New York Gov.'s book 'American Crisis' is being blasted as hypocrisy
Amazon and other major retailers are keeping quiet on whether they will continue to sell New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2020 book covering his management of COVID-19 as his nursing home controversy grows.
The online retail giant and other notable booksellers such as Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Apple Books, and Target have yet to address Fox Business' requests for comment. Crown Publishing, the publisher of Cuomo's "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic" have also ignored requests.
The New York Times best-selling book published in October promised to tell "the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward." Its 320 pages are now being mocked as utter hypocrisy as state lawmakers are calling for investigations into his administration and his resignation.
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 photo provided by the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Gov. Cuomo holds a press briefing on the coronavirus in the Red Room at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP)
Cuomo's daily coronavirus briefings in 2020, in which he promised to deliver "just the facts," also won him an International Emmy Founders Award in November "in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of TV to inform and calm people around the world."
The Academy said the award is given to those who "cross cultural boundaries to touch our common humanity." The academy also has yet to speak out amid calls for the award to be rescinded.
The Cuomo administration for months dramatically underreported the statewide number of COVID-19 deaths among long-term care residents. It is now nearly 15,000, up from the 8,500 previously disclosed.
Amazon and other notable booksellers such as Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Apple Books, and Target have yet to address questions regarding whether they plan to continue selling New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's book about managing the COVID-19 pandemic (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The new toll amounts to about one-seventh of the roughly 90,000 people living in nursing homes as of 2019 in New York, which has among the most care home residents in the nation.
Cuomo has pointed to a small but growing body of research suggesting unchecked community spread is the biggest factor in nursing home outbreaks, and he has said inadequate federal government help with travel restrictions, testing and protective gear left New York City and its suburbs particularly vulnerable.
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He has dismissed criticism as political and noted that the thousands of nursing home residents’ deaths in hospitals were always counted in the state’s overall tally.
“Died in a hospital, died in a nursing home — they died,” he said Jan. 29.
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And Cuomo — who says he will run again in 2022 — is now facing criticism that is increasingly coming from members of his own party.
“The governor’s lack of transparency and stonewalling regarding his administration’s nursing home actions is unacceptable,” said state Sen. John Mannion, one of 14 Democratic state senators who said Friday that Cuomo’s expanded emergency powers should be repealed as soon as possible.
Fox News' Bradford Betz and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
