Health Equity

Nursing ranks are filled with Filipino Americans. The pandemic is taking an outsized toll on them

Abstract: Because they are most likely to work in acute care, medical/surgical, and ICU nursing, many “FilAms” are on the frontlines of care for Covid-19 patients.

Publication: STAT

Date Published: April 28, 2020

Author(s): Usha Lee McFarling

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