Filipino nurses

NEW YORK — The wedding vow “in sickness and in health” has never been more meaningful until the pandemic. They were nursing students when Herwyn Silva and Vanessa Baral met 8 years ago, and on the...

As Los Angeles shut down beaches and pulled the plug on fireworks during Fourth of July, local Filipino Americans were honored during Grand Park’s virtual block party. Among the familiar faces, along with a familiar taste....

As California caregivers keep working on the frontlines of the pandemic, and with their facilities continuing to be hotspots for COVID-19 — they’re desperate for state lawmakers to pass a bill that guarantees them hazard protections....

Among the hardest-hit sectors in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic are long-term care homes, with over 1,800 resident deaths and 7 staff deaths — including a Filipino personal support worker, or PSW. SEIU union president, Sharleen...

VANCOUVER — Many Filipino Canadian frontliners in the lower mainland used to work double jobs shuttling from one senior home to another for extra income. But with the COVID-19 outbreak, they’ve been limited to work at...

HISTORIC FILIPINOTOWN — For over a year, the HiFi Kitchen provides a go-to spot for Filipino food-craving residents, serving up innovative dishes while providing a community space. But the restaurant owner and registered nurse Justin Foronda...

Read this multimedia story on ABS-CBN News. NEW YORK CITY –  The blaring sirens of 21 ambulances with flashing red lights filled the street outside Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York – a gesture equivalent to a...

NEW YORK —  The good weather over the Memorial Day Weekend was just what many New Yorkers needed after sheltering-in-place for months. Many explored Central Park, while Brooklyn’s Coney Island was crowded with beachgoers sporting masks...

SALEM, MA — He’s only 19-years-old, but Filipino-American Ben Zimmerman has been working on the frontlines of the pandemic at a hospital in Salem, Massachusetts, taking care of hospice patients with COVID-19. He originally got the...

LAS VEGAS, NV —  Cesar Noel Estillore, a Fil-Am nurse from Las Vegas, is among more than 5,400 people in Clark County who got infected with COVID-19. Estillore recalled how he was possibly exposed to the...