The book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” is released to the public. He replies: “Well, only if sell a lot of copies.” Oct. 19, 2020:Ĭuomo is asked during a radio appearance if he got “a lot of money” for writing the book. The public is officially informed that Cuomo is writing a book. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on August 10, 2021. The member is directed by a senior Cuomo aide that the governor wants them to “keep flshing” out the chapter. A COVID-19 task force member assists in drafting and editing Chapter 6 of the book, which touches on the issue of nursing homes during the pandemic.Senior Executive Chamber staff draft and edit portions of the manuscript and speak with the publisher’s team about revisions and drafts by email, phone and in person, including on weekdays and during work hours.A chapter on nursing homes is deemed “critically important” by a top Cuomo adviser.John Minchillo/AP Mid-July to mid-August 2020: Andrew Cuomo’s resignation over his handling of nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak and his sexual harassment scandal.
Senior members of the Executive Chamber attend at least three days of manuscript editing sessions at the Executive Mansion. 1, 2020:Īll-day meetings are held with Cuomo, his staff and Penguin. Penguin wins the bidding war and agrees to pay the then-governor $5.1 million in advances. In late March, New York’s Department of Health bars nursing homes from denying COVID-19-positive residents entry.
After several rounds, bidding escalates into the $5 million range. July 8, 2020:Ī bidding war for Cuomo’s book begins among three publishing houses. “Throughout the drafting process, the former Governor reviewed and edited the draft DOH Report on multiple occasions, and made edits to strengthen the defense of the March 25 Directive,” an Assembly report states. At Cuomo’s behest, DOH publishes its doctored nursing home data report that shows 6,000 deaths instead of 10,000. Tim Ireland/PA/AP July 6, 2020:Ĭuomo and a “senior Executive Chamber official” meet with Penguin reps. Andrew Cuomo was interested in writing a book.
July 1, 2020:Ĭuomo’s literary agent tells a Penguin rep the governor has been working on the book and has 70,000 words completed. May 10, 2020:Ĭuomo issues new directive rescinding the March 25 order. Fatalities of nursing home residents who died in hospitals are removed from metrics. Statistics on nursing home fatalities published on DOH website are revised to only include confirmed and presumed cases in facilities. The DOH orders nursing homes to report daily COVID-19 deaths, including “if the death occurred in facility or the hospital setting.” On or around May 6, 2020: The DOH begins publishing nursing home fatalities on its website. The state Department of Health issues the infamous directive barring nursing homes from denying COVID-19-positive residents entry to the facility. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order for New York to go on pause due to the pandemic on March 20, 2020. Penguin Random House reaches out to a literary agency representing Cuomo to see if he “was interested in writing a book.” March 20, 2020:Ĭuomo issues executive order stating New York will go on pause in two days. A 39-year-old health care worker from Manhattan, who recently returned from a trip to Iran, is identified as the first positive case in the Empire State. Andrew Cuomo hid the true COVID-19 death toll of nursing home residents while negotiating the rights to his book last year about the COVID-19 crisis that paid him a $5.1 million advance.