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‘One out of 5 ICU nurses is a Filipino’ — ConGen Cristobal
By Lindy Rosales “These are challenging times. And the pandemic is very much in our midst. Our community has been affected… and affected badly. As of this morning, 50 of our kababayans have died from Covid-19.” Consul General Claro Cristobal opened with this grim remark in an April 18 press briefing with members of the […]
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On Global Filipinos: Island doctor Jonas Ebarle: A radiologist in Tortola
By Loida Nicolas Lewis When Lucien Stoutt – who was hired by my late husband as a butler in 1988 and continued to work for me as a house manager, chauffeur and event planner — told me he was getting married in his home country of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, my long-time friend Dr. Angie […]
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Doctor uses comics to raise awareness about the coronavirus pandemic
By Wendell Gaa Dr. Carlo Jose San Juan, a nuclear medicine specialist based in Metro Manila, has been doing his part in spreading awareness of the COVID-19 global epidemic both as a working physician and as a comic book writer. He has utilized his talent to educate the community on COVID-19 through his doctor-themed comic […]
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Why illegal immigrants don’t seek treatment for COVID-19
By Sunita Sohrabji, India-West Immigrant communities fear to seek treatment for COVID-19 because of the new public charge rule that says those who seek any form of federal public aid could be denied permanent status in the U.S. Dr. Daniel Turner-Lloveras of the Harbor UCLA Medical Clinic made this remark at a webinar organized by […]
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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 […]