Rosary: A Dance-Crazy Nurse Who Left Retirement to Fight the Pandemic

Rosary: A Dance-Crazy Nurse Who Left Retirement to Fight the Pandemic | Cause of Life - NYT Opinion

PINOY BUILT December 21, 2020

Rosary Castro-Olega was a retired nurse who returned to the frontlines to fight the virus, ultimately becoming one of the Filipino-American nurses who were disproportionately killed by the virus.

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