As devastating as COVID-19 was in those early months, a number of studies now reveal just how hard the virus hit Filipino health care workers. It’s still very fresh.”According to a survey published in September by National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the United States, 67 Filipino nurses have died of COVID-19. And many Filipino nurses fear that their hospitals could again be crushed under caseloads that recall the harrowing months of March and April. “Everything has been pointing to the risk for Filipino health care workers,” said Ninez Ponce, a researcher at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health who studies health disparities. In the spring, many Filipino nurses went weeks without sleeping at home, said Laarni Florencio, a board member of the Philippine Nurses Association of New York.

Source: bd News24 January 17, 2021 04:18 UTC