level that is the most honest picture of any governor's response to the pandemic, and work to get the numbers down.
You think one pissed off reporter who "tells on" a governor should be hailed as a hero? and not the governor who has saved lives?
I agree that "I will destroy you" sounds wrathful. But it comes from the honest place of hard work and trust in the competence of his highly competent team in executing the treatment and supply structure of the 3rd largest state with the #1 financial center on the planet. Cuomo gets THAT kind of credit.
Ever heard of the lead doctor on Cuomo's pandemic team?
I can up the ante here with quotes from Howard Zucker, MD, JD, who runs the numbers for that state.
A native of the Bronx, Dr. Zucker earned his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine at age 22, becoming one of America's youngest doctors. He is board-certified in six specialties/subspecialties and trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, anesthesiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, pediatric critical care medicine/pediatric anesthesiology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and pediatric cardiology at Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School.
Before joining the state Department of Health in September 2013, Dr. Zucker was a professor of clinical anesthesiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School, where he taught biosecurity law.
His vast experience in public policy began as a White House Fellow under then-Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. Subsequently he became the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health where he developed the nation's Medical Reserve Corps, which today is run by the U.S. Surgeon General and includes more than 200,000 volunteers across nearly 1000 programs. He also worked on the development of the initial SARS preparedness plan, the anthrax crisis, and the National Institutes of Health autism summit, and led a multidisciplinary team on the issue of tissue engineering/regenerative medicine. Dr. Zucker advanced his public policy experience while serving as an Institute of Politics Resident Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and later as a Presidential Leadership Scholar.
Dr. Zucker is recognized internationally for his work to advance global health. As senior advisor in the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital, he leads a team of experts in developing a community peace index, a research initiative aimed at identifying the effectiveness of peace intervention programs in countries impacted by war, political strife and economic instability.
Previously, he served as Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in charge of the Health Technology & Pharmaceuticals cluster. In this capacity, Dr. Zucker was the highest ranked American at the WHO and spearheaded efforts to globally combat counterfeit medicines as well as address the interface between intellectual property rights, innovation and public health. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Council for Emerging National Security Affairs, and was a "high-level expert" on public health for NATO.
While working on a public-private partnership with an educational technology company, he developed The Afghan Family Health Book, a health literacy project that has educated millions of women in Afghanistan. Dr. Zucker has traveled to China and Haiti on medical missions and spoken extensively throughout the United States on national health policy issues, including at TEDx, as well as internationally on global health challenges.
Dr. Zucker served as associate professor of clinical pediatrics and anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and pediatric director of the ICU at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he launched the restructuring of the critical care complex both from a clinical care delivery standpoint as well as the physical environment. He has held academic appointments at Yale University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, and as a research affiliate in the Center for Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Zucker received his B.S. degree from McGill University. As a student at McGill, he helped design zero-gravity medical experiments that ultimately were conducted aboard several Space Shuttle missions. He recently completed a seven year term on the Board of Directors of the nongovernmental organization that oversees the U.S. National Lab on the International Space Station.
Zucker was profiled in The New Yorker and has been listed in Best Doctors in America as well as Who's Who in the World. He is a member of the medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha, and the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://www.health.ny.gov/commissioner/bio/
Here's the New Yorker profile on Zucker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-message-of-measles
If you want to pick a side on the so-called Cuomo issue, pick carefully. Otherwise one might think you are one of those "perfect-as-the-enemy-of-the-good" Democrats who won't support imperfect but otherwise great Democratic leaders.
Think Zucker would work for a wrathful leader? Think he'd stand up for Cuomo if he were? No. You can't honestly say he would.
But he has stood up for him. I posted the video of that, if you'd care to watch it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017641738
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