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ALBANY, N. Y. New York has the most deaths in the nation from COVID-19, but now has among the lowest infection rates in the nation. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is writing about it. Crown, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, announced Tuesday it will publish a new book Oct. 13 by the Democratic governor, titledAMERICAN CRISIS: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. If you dont feel fear, you dont appreciate the consequences of the circumstance,” Cuomo writes in a passage released by Random House. “The questions are what do you do with the fear and would you succumb to it. I would not allow the fear to control me. The fear kept my adrenaline high and that was a positive. But I would not let the fear be a negative, and I would not spread it. Fear is a virus also. The book will be the second since Cuomo took office. His memoir,All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life,was a flop selling a mere 3,000 copies when it was published before his re-election in 2014. He waspaid about $700,000 for it. Cuomo spoke about the states coronavirus responseduring a prime-time address Monday at the Democratic National Convention, highlighting New Yorks ability to bend the COVID curve and criticizing the federal response. Random House billed Cuomos book as a “revealing, behind-the-scenes account of his experience leading New York State through the COVID-19 epidemic. “The book will be released in physical and e-book formats, with an audio book edition read by Cuomo, the publisher announced. New York has had more then 25,000 deaths due to coronavirus, by far the most in America. But a careful reopening of businesses andrequiring masks to be worn has helped New York lower its death toll from as many as 800 a day in early April to just a few a day now. And the state just had 10 days in a row of infection rates below 1% as it tests more than 50,000 people a day. Cuomo continues to face criticism over
