Doctor: I want my kids to know this if virus kills me
Dr. Cornelia Griggs speaks with CNN's Don Lemon about what she's seeing every shift in her hospital, and what she wants her children to know in case they lose her to coronavirus.
New York Doctor: “The Sky is Falling”
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.”
"[That moment] reflected a really raw and emotional moment for me in the hospital,” Griggs told “Good Morning America." "All of us who are showing up to do our job every day are facing the fear of getting sick or getting someone in our family sick and I wanted my kids to know that despite all of that fear and uncertainty and chaos, that I love my job. I would still choose to be a doctor 1,000 times over, because I feel privileged to do the work that I do."
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Dr. Cornelia Griggs, who works at the MGH for Children, is also director of education at the Mass General Center for Gun Violence Prevention.
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