The Atlantic
Why Filipino nurses have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic
February 25, 2021
Joyette Jagolino (second from the right) in critical-care nurse training with her class at Saint Paul University in ManilaPhoto courtesy of Joyette Jagolino
At the start of the pandemic, Jollene Levid and her mother, Nora, found themselves glued to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s nightly press conferences. In a press conference late last March, Garcetti announced a new milestone: the first health-care worker in Los Angeles County to die of the disease.
“When I heard him say that, I realized that he was talking about Auntie Rosary,” Jollene Levid says, speaking about Rosary Castro-Olega, a 63-year-old nurse who came out of retirement to work in hospitals strained by the pandemic. Castro-Olega’s death helped inspire an online memorial called Kanlungan, which honors the lives of health-care workers of Filipino descent.
The Game Awards 2020 Winners Revealed
The Game Awards 2020 Winners Revealed
The Game Awards 2020 has just wrapped its seventh annual ceremony! Check out the list of winners below and see if your favorites walked away with any awards!
The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honor outstanding artistic, technical, and gameplay achievements in the video game industry. Spanning console, mobile, and PC gaming, as well as eSports, The Game Awards is the first of a new breed of award shows, built from the ground up exclusively for global digital and streaming platforms.
Here is a list of all the winners from the 2020 event: