‘Cannon Fodder': Medical Students in India Feel Betrayed On Tuesday, India reported 323,144 new infections for a total of more than 17.6 million cases, behind only the United States By Neha Mehrotra and Aniruddha Ghosal • Published 4 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago NBC Universal, Inc. Since the beginning of the week, Dr. Siddharth Tara, a postgraduate medical student at New Delhi’s government-run Hindu Rao Hospital, has had a fever and persistent headache. He took a COVID-19 test, but the results have been delayed as the country’s health system implodes. His hospital, overburdened and understaffed, wants him to keep working until the testing laboratory confirms he has COVID-19.