“[Cuomo’s] literary agent told a Penguin Random House representative that then-Governor Cuomo had been writing a book about his experiences during the first six months of the pandemic” Source. They said they had about 70,000 words completed. (page 28)

Cuomo rescinds March 25th Guidance and prohibited hospitals from discharging a patient to a nursing home unless the patient first tests negative for COVID-19 and requires nursing homes to test all staff twice weekly and authorizes the Commissioner to revoke an operating license for failure to comply and establishes penalties.

In the May 10th section of Cuomo’s book, he (falsely) states:

“New York was number forty-six out of fifty in the nation when it came to percentage of deaths in nursing homes. There were only four states with a lower percentage of nursing home deaths, and New York had a much worse situation to manage.”

The governor signed the 2021 fiscal year state budget into law that included an added blanket immunity for hospitals and nursing homes from COVID lawsuits. Link.

The governor and the state Department of Health issued a statewide advisory barring nursing homes from denying admission to patients solely on the basis of a suspected or confirmed Covid-19 diagnosis. Nursing homes were not given advance notice of this order, and it is now confirmed that the Executive Chamber, not DOH, wrote this advisory.

a Penguin Random House representative reached out to a Cuomo literary agent to discuss a book deal.