America's Filipino nurses remain resilient pillars at home and abroad despite pandemic

Three months ago, nurse Leane Bulaong walked slowly along corridors of metal frames and white curtains at the Baltimore Convention Center, which had been converted into a field hospital for COVID-19. Instead of wearing her usual nursing scrubs, she had donned a patient gown; a pair of non-skid socks; a pulse oximeter, measuring her blood oxygen saturation; and a nasal cannula delivering oxygen from a tank she pulled alongside.