Supporting Filipino health care workers

The World

People of  Filipino descent make up 1 percent of the US population, but 7 percent of the healthcare workforce. In New York City, a group in the Queens neighborhood known as Little Manila, is taking care of their own healthcare workers during the pandemic. Reporter Rosalind Tordesillas has our story. 

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