‘This is my chance to thank New York,’ says an immigrant working in a coronavirus hospital ‘red zone’
Gina Rejas is an immigrant from Peru who moved to New York in 2001. For the past five years, Rejas has worked as a housekeeper at White Plains Hospital in Westchester County, one of the places that has been hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Rejas’s unit is a “red zone” dedicated solely to patients infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Listen to her simple message for America.
