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Chasing the Dream

A COVID Nurse Finds Reasons to Dance | Caretakers Ep. 1

Season 2021 Episode 6 | 7m 54s

Belinda is a veteran nurse who worked during multiple pandemics, from AIDS to COVID.

Belinda is a veteran nurse and typical Filipina "auntie." She left the Philippines to work as a nurse through the AIDS epidemic, the first Gulf War in Iraq, and eventually at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, the center of New York's COVID outbreak. Despite living through enormous tragedy, somehow she remains upbeat, finding freedom through dance and friendship.

10/07/2021

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Chasing the Dream is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS

Major funding for Chasing the Dream is provided by The JPB Foundation, with additional funding from The Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund and Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III.

Chasing the Dream

A COVID Nurse Finds Reasons to Dance | Caretakers Ep. 1

Season 2021 Episode 6 | 7m 54s

Belinda is a veteran nurse and typical Filipina "auntie." She left the Philippines to work as a nurse through the AIDS epidemic, the first Gulf War in Iraq, and eventually at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, the center of New York's COVID outbreak. Despite living through enormous tragedy, somehow she remains upbeat, finding freedom through dance and friendship.

10/07/2021

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Chasing the Dream is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS

Major funding for Chasing the Dream is provided by The JPB Foundation, with additional funding from The Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund and Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III.

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