For US-based Filipino actress Aina Dumlao, getting cast as Gerlie Bernardo, a Filipino nurse suffering through the physical aftermath of COVID-19, the Season 17 finale of “Grey’s Anatomy” (“Someone Saved My Life Tonight) was nothing short of groundbreaking.
After all, it’s ridiculous to extol the indispensability of Pinoy medical workers on the front lines of America’s war against the coronavirus and not see a single Filipino face on network TV’s a-dime-a-dozen medical shows.
Case in point: A CNN report revealed last December that a third of the nurses who had died because of COVID were Filipinos. It makes you think that, while they proselytize about the importance of diversity…
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