Hey y'all, if you're anything like me, you've probably spent way too many nights on your couch,

you know, scrolling through Twitter while simultaneously watching Netflix and board and listless

wishing there was something better to do.

Well, there is something better to do at least for one night because on April 15th,

Code Switch is hosting a virtual live show. It starts at 8 p.m. Eastern 5 p.m. Pacific,

and it's going to be a lot of fun. There's going to be great conversations. Listener questions that

we answer some poetry, April is poetry month, and a live DJ. So big, big thanks out to my hometown,

Public Radio Station, WHYY. For presenting this event, it's going to be very dope. So please come

kick it with us. You can get your tickets at WHYY.org slash code switch. Again, that's WHYY.org slash code switch.

Can't wait to see you there. Alright, now on to the show.

I'm Jean Dumbi. I'm Shireen Marisol Miraji, and this is Code Switch. From NPR.

More than a half million people have died from COVID-19 in the United States. As of one,

we're taping this episode, the death toll is at about 550,000, which is just a staggering

staggering number. It is. And for those of you who are like me and are having a really hard time

connecting with that number because it's so big to really wrap your head around, this might help.

Most US cities don't have that many residents. Or this, which helps me. Dodger Stadium has 56,000

seats. So that number is like filling up Dodger Stadium nearly 10 times over. And because this

number is so overwhelming, so difficult for all of us to comprehend, a couple of reporters decided

to take a different approach. It took one COVID statistic and they went deep.

And that stat is that while Filipino nurses make up 4% of all the nurses in the United States,

they make up 31% of the deaths of nurses from COVID. And one of those nurses was Rosary

Castro Olega. Rosary came out of retirement at the start of the pandemic because she really

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