Luca Powell, The New York Times Published: 17 Jan 2021 10:19 AM BdST Updated: 17 Jan 2021 10:19 AM BdST Belinda Ellis, an emergency room nurse, in Queens on Dec 22, 2020. The New York Times
Belinda Ellis had been a nurse for 40 years, and she thought she’d seen it all. She had worked in hospitals in the Philippines, where she was born and got her degree. She was a nurse in Saudi Arabia and then at a military hospital on the border of Iraq when Saddam Hussein came into power. ); }
But when the first wave of the pandemic battered New York City last spring, she still wasn’t prepared. Nor could she have foreseen the immense toll the coronavirus would take on her Filipino colleagues.