“This can’t be right,” thought Isabel, a local college student, when she turned on her car after work this past November. A deafening roar erupted from the 2003 Honda Accord, and “it smelled like smoke, or like something burning.” Startled by the noise and the odor, she called for a tow truck. When the driver arrived, he promptly diagnosed the clamor coming from under her automobile.

The Conejo Guardian’s series on Ventura County nurses whistleblowers has been read by millions of people nationwide and was shared and re-posted by national news outlets and others, including one of the world’s most prominent virologists.