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Health workers attest to dwindling supplies: ‘Even Purell is running low’
By Lindy Rosales As the coronavirus pandemic continues to claim lives, the United States is leading the world with the most number of people infected at more than 100,000 as of March 27. In the U.S., the epicenter points to New York State with at least 81,000 cases. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has asked […]
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Retired Navy surgeon Raquel Bono, a Pinay, is Washington’s top adviser on COVID-19
Gov. Jay Inslee on March 22 named retired Navy Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono as Washington state director for COVID-19 Health System Response Management. Bono is currently a senior fellow with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. As the former chief executive officer and director for the Defense Health Agency, Bono led a joint, […]
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Why calling it ‘China virus’ stigmatizes our community
By Cristina DC Pastor The virus called Covid-19 is a public health pandemic that has darkened many countries around the world. Broadway in the city of our dreams has turned eerily quiet since the outbreak, and Times Square, the tumultuous heartbeat of New York, is silenced as the disease tightened its claws on the gasping […]
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In quarantine, juggling isolation and the need to run errands for survival
By Lindy Rosales People Under Quarantine. They are the unwilling martyrs in the global health emergency resulting from the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus. I spoke with two of them and learned of their dilemma while being in a state of self-containment. Elna Bicar of Teaneck, New Jersey, went into self-quarantine heeding the call […]
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Masks made by mom
By Lindy Rosales Anna de Jesus* works in the dialysis center of one of the acute care hospitals in the Bronx. Amid the deadly Covid-19 epidemic, she discovered she could do something other than extend direct medical treatment to her patients. She can make face masks! She spent her precious days-off manufacturing cloth masks using her […]
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FilAms helping FilAms in a time of Covid-19
By Cristina DC Pastor In a time of calamity, trust the Filipino American community to act quickly and act with heart. Powerful earthquakes and typhoons in the past have prepared Filipino organizations to efficiently rally their members to fundraise. But in a time of Covid-19, a fast-spreading virus that has forced the shutdown of cities […]
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A nurse’s reflections on the dreaded COVID-19 while waiting to be tested
By Lindy Rosales I have been having chills since the previous Saturday but with no fever. I take the subway to work, pass by Grand Central terminal where a lawyer from New Rochelle, who tested positive for COVID-19, also takes his subway train. I called two private doctors to see if I could be tested […]
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The brave, healing hands of surgeon Zahrah Taufique
By Danielle Vania Bonus Dr. Zahrah Taufique grew up spending her summers in India and the Philippines where her parents are from. These memorable holidays also exposed her to poverty in these countries and developed in her a desire to help the underprivileged. A Chief Resident Surgeon of ENT (ear, nose and throat — also […]
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Teaching our children the truth
By Johnson Lazaro, Esq. ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong’ The book cited above, by James W. Loewen and reissued by New Press in 2008, sits beside my bed these days and makes for some very interesting and rather unsettling reading. The subtitle conveys the gist of the book. […]