In case you missed it: Elaine Quijano reports on 'Filipino Americans on the Front Lines' on CBS 'Good Morning'

Finally, the critical role Filipino Americans are playing in fighting against the coronavirus pandemic, is getting some notice.

Filipino American journalist Elaine Quijano's report on "Filipino Americans On the Front Lines" aired on CBS This Morning last Thursday (July 30).

Unfortunately, only the Eastern Seaboard was able to watch it because the funeral of Congressman John Lewis was taking place, 8 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. So, for those West Coasters who were didn't see the news segment, 

People of Filipino ancestry make up about 1% of the U.S. population, but more than 7% of the nation's health care workers. According to ProPublica, one of every four Filipino adults in the New York-New Jersey area works in the medical field. 

Quijano shares the effect the pandemic has had on this community of caretakers.

In the segment, Quijano, who reveals that she has relatives working in the healthcare field, interviewed registered nurse Nina Badiola, whose husband Ron Badiola is also a nurse, who recently died from COVID-19.

After immigrating from the Philippines ten years ago, the couple had finally become U.S. citizens last year.

On July 21, the Los Angeles Times, which has been keeping tabs on the Filipino American healthcare workers in Southern California, published a story that revealed that the Filipino American community in the L.A. region was dying at a higher rate than their share of the population.

The high number of workers in health care -- in hospitals and nursing homes -- was one of the reasons attributed to the death rate among Filipino Americans, but also the community tend to live in multi-generational households, with the younger members may not know the have the coronavirus, come home and expose older relatives to the virus.