As the number of the coronavirus cases rises across New York City, elected officials have been working to add more hospital beds and build temporary hospitals to help our overwhelmed health care system. Dr. Theresa Madaline, a health care epidemiologist and an infectious disease specialist with Montefiore Health System, joined Errol Louis by Skype to talk about how the city’s hospitals are holding up.

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