Jagadish Jack Desai, who helped Indian immigrants bridge cultural divide to U.S., dies at 87 July 26, 2021 8:17pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Jagadish Desai was always busy doing something, whether it was helping newly arrived immigrants from India get acclimated to life in Minnesota or bridging cultural differences by building a connection between his native and adopted countries.
He and his wife set up several academic scholarships and sponsored family members to come to the United States. Numerous foreign students even came to live in the Desai home.
Desai, remembered by loved ones as a fun, outgoing, giving person with an infectious smile who strongly believed in family, friends, and community, died of a stroke on June 29 at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. He was 87.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in April that 69% of people sought outpatient care one to six months after milder COVID illnesses that didn t require hospitalizations often for related issues such as shortness of breath.
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Larry Farber couldn t walk a mile last month without stopping three times to catch his breath, the aftereffect of a COVID-19 illness so severe that the 64-year-old was hospitalized twice and received powerful steroids and oxygen support to breathe.
Amy Crnecki wasn t hospitalized for COVID-19, but the 38-year-old still can t dance with her daughter without fear of crushing fatigue. I just want to be able to play outside with my kids, she said, and play a game of basketball and not feel winded and feel like, I shouldn t have done that.
The two Minnesotans, diagnosed with COVID-19 during the same week in November, are part of a poorly understood group of people whose health has suffered long after infection and who could continue to struggle after the pandemic recedes. The number of COVID long haulers remains a mystery in a pandemic that otherwise has been one of the most measured, modeled and mapped events in human history.