Every night during dinner, Saideepika Rayala and her family turn on news from India, where most of their extended family still lives.
The scenes they see playing out there are heartbreaking for the teenager, who said she s seen people turned away from hospitals because there s not enough space as the nation battles a deadly second wave of COVID-19. People aren t even getting the chance to live, said the 19-year-old, who lives with her parents in Powell while she attends Yale University virtually this semester. I ve been trying to cope with everything, and seeing the news kind of destroys the sense of normalcy you re trying to feel here.