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New York Doctor: "The Sky is Falling"

Clip: 3/23/2020 | 2m 31sVideo has Closed Captions

Dr. Cornelia Griggs discusses the reality of doctors fighting COVID-19 on the front lines.

New York is the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., accounting for about half of the country’s total cases. Dr. Cornelia Griggs is a pediatric surgeon who has warned in the New York Times that “the sky is falling,” and she joins the show to explain to Christiane why the cracks in the country’s medical system “are being splayed open like a gashing wound.”

03/23/2020

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