that this is some kind of the sound many kumi strain how it help us unpack it is jennifer jennifer thank you for joining us on the street can you tell our audience here what you did. i thanks for having me i am an assistant professor in brown university and i'm a co-founder and co-director of a filipino health initiative at our school of public health. what did you think when you 1st saw that the number statistically stakes of how many for the peano nurses had died coronavirus. i mean it's absolutely devastating and this is both personal and professional for me i'm a daughter of a filipino nurse my relatives are nurses around the country as well as in other parts of the world so it's absolutely devastating i mean we're really underscore is that is that the invisibility of filipino nurses i'm in the u.s. health care industry that we don't hear about the dispersant number of filipino nurses that are part of the labor force they are our research is showing that they're on the front lines when they're in the i.c.u. use they're in the emergency rooms they're working in nursing homes and carin