Panic attacks, daily calls and medical missions: Hudson County’s Indian diaspora grapples with COVID-19 crisis from afar
Updated May 09, 2021;
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The doctor in India had grave news, so Hiral Trivedi booked a flight.
It could be the last chance to see her mother while she was conscious, sick in a hospital with COVID-19 during a nationwide surge in cases that was only worsening. Then it dawned on her what it meant to travel halfway around the
world when such a contagious disease was spreading ruthlessly and what might unravel when she returned to Jersey City three days later.