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American Hubris: Cuomo Battles Self-Made Crisis

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 2/19/21

When Governor Cuomo last October published a memoir about his work in getting the coronavirus under control, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic," the primary criticism of the book was that it took a certain hubris to be celebrating his efforts when, rather than the disease having been conquered, there were expectations that a second wave was approaching.

There was another concern that got a bit less attention—the thousands of deaths inside nursing homes after the state Health Department last March 25 issued a directive requiring that nursing-home residents who had been sent to hospitals in the state for treatment of the coronavirus be returned to those homes once they could be safely discharged. But that, too, offered a reason to wonder about the Governor's decision to rush out a book that amounted to a victory lap.

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