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How Indian Americans Got the President’s Ear
After years of trying to build influence, the Indian American political world is starting to feel a sense of actual power and clout in the new administration.
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Shekar Narasimhan started calling and emailing the White House on a Wednesday the same day India’s Covid-19 death toll reached a record 2,000 people in a single day. News of oxygen shortages, overrun hospitals and depleting vaccine supplies had been trickling in from India all week, and Narasimhan, a longtime Democratic fundraiser who chairs a super PAC focused on mobilizing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, was among the rising chorus of Indian American voices calling for
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(NEW YORK) India is caught in the throes of a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, with the nation’s health authority reporting 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, the seventh consecutive day with over 300,000 new infections.
“The exponential growth that we’ve seen in case numbers is really, truly astonishing,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 technical lead, said during a Monday press briefing. “We have seen similar trajectories of increases in transmission in a number of countries, [but] it has not been at the same scale, and it has not had the same level of impact and burden on the health care system that we’ve seen in India.”
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India’s COVID-19 crisis deteriorating rapidly
International help is on the way after nearly 6 million new cases were confirmed in the country last week. Atul Loke/The New York Times/Redux Pictures
India is caught in the throes of a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, with the nation s health authority reporting 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, the seventh consecutive day with over 300,000 new infections. The exponential growth that we ve seen in case numbers is really, truly astonishing, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization s COVID-19 technical lead, said during a Monday press briefing. We have seen similar trajectories of increases in transmission in a number of countries, [but] it has not been at the same scale, and it has not had the same level of impact and burden on the hea
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