sheri fink, thank you for joining us.f you could talk first about houston and what you're finding there. you, coming from the epicenter covering what had happened here in new york as t the epicenter switches and shifts to houston? there a are a l lot of similaririties, unfortunatelelyd some dififferences -- we can tak about both. the simililarities s are just te nunumbers. the numbers of n new patients. they are stressing t the hospits here.. the hospspital i have b been embedded with, houstonethodistst hospital,l, which is the largest hohospital inn houston, has just bebeen astonishing. they have been adding unit after unit a after unit jujust to carr coronavirus patitsts. they can do o that. meananwhile, there's a safety nt system. those hospitals who are there e treat people who tend to be disproportionately affected by coronavirus, and they are just completely full and transferring their patients out. this is very similar to o new yk in that way. in n terms of some of t t differeeses, itouldld seem at least in the ear

sheri fink who has been reporting inside houston's hardit hospitals. >> we are he at houston methodist hospital, which is e largest spspitaln houston. right at this moment, the number of coronavirus cases is really rising dramatically in the city. amy: and we will speak to emergency physician dr. uche blackstock, founder of advancing health equity y which works to fight racismsm and bias inin heh services. >> living in this country has essentially made black americans sick. and over thehe last three e mon, we have e witnessed a crisis