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The Harlem doctor who contracted and beat Ebola lashed out at Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday, saying they acted out of fear and without knowing all the facts when they ordered mandatory quarantines of health care workers returning from West Africa.

“What I think and what I know is what happened after my sickness was . . . many politicians [had] a convenient chance to appear presidential,” Dr. Craig Spencer, who treated Ebola victims in Guinea, said on WNYC radio.

He said politicians threw out “public health principles at the expense of political expediency.”

Before coming down with a fever, indicating Ebola, the doctor was out and about in the city — jogging, dining out, bowling and riding subways.

Spencer insisted he didn’t do anything wrong.

“At no point would I have put . . . the safety of my loved ones and my community at risk,” he said.

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