Hi I'm Isaac de Verre and this is the ticket politics from the Atlantic. I'm still

in my apartment in Washington like many people working from home staying away

from people as much as possible.

But I grew up in New York, I started out covering politics in New York,

and I have a view of what's going on there

and that we can all see what's going on there

that's both personal

and professional from having covered people like Andrew Cuomo and Bill DiBlazio for

years. A lot of the fears that people have of what this could be are already in New York. Just on Friday, the Javitt Center,

the huge Convention Center on the west side of Manhattan was converted into a

makeshift hospital with beds separated by curtains it's going to be manned by the

military. Some of the worst of it though has, has been at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.

There was a New York Times story the other day

that had a doctor calling it an apocalyptic situation

with the medical staff already overwhelmed under-resourced.

The person that represents Elmer's Hospital and much of Queens

is Grace Mang, Congresswoman from New York.

She, on Friday, flew back to DC for a couple of hours to vote on the

two trillion dollar coronavirus package and she got on a plane back to New York that afternoon.

After she landed back to New York that afternoon.

After she landed back in New York, I asked her to join me on a Zoom call

to talk about what it was like to expose herself to the risk of the coronavirus

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