He’s shared personal anecdotes about his family, including his younger brother, Chris, the CNN anchor, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, and displayed a surprising degree of warmth and humor for someone who acknowledged in his own memoir that the Albany media referred to him, alternately, as the Prince of Darkness and Darth Vader. George Etheredge for Rolling Stoneīut as a communicator, in particular, Cuomo has risen to the occasion, proving especially adept at walking viewers through the nuances of the daily barrage of bad news, offering realistic glimmers of hope but never magical thinking. For a politician never especially renowned for his bedside manner, Cuomo has emerged as an unlikely source of comfort in these supremely unsettling times, the blunt-talking adult in the room.Īndrew Cuomo, photographed in Albany, New York, on April 3rd, 2020 by George Etheredge. The daily public briefings held by Cuomo, 62, the governor of the hardest-hit state, have become appointment viewing, not just for New Yorkers, but for all Americans feeling terrified, unmoored, and hungry for something resembling competent national leadership. Think about that!” As the country faces a national emergency that is graver, for most of us, than any in living memory, a surreal split-screen response has been unfolding in Washington and Albany, via Queens. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Two days later, Donald Trump tweeted, “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu.
Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency.
Six days later, that number had jumped to 89, and Gov. On March 1st, New York reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19, after a Manhattan health care worker in her late thirties, who had visited Iran, tested positive at a hospital in the city. This story appears in the May 2020 issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands May 5th.
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