This medical student wanted to help her family in India. Now a 900-pound shipment of supplies is on its way.
Noor Shaik, 27, received so many donations that she had to temporarily move out of her dorm room (Razin Karu; Washington Post illustration) Cathy Free
May 17, 2021
Noor Shaik felt heartbroken and helpless after talking on the phone with her 83-year-old grandmother in India last month.
“Here I was, enjoying my life and my family in the United States, while over there, everyone was worried about going into lockdown [over the coronavirus],” said Shaik, 27, a medical student at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia.
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There are countless scenarios where one person might be directly exposed to the coronavirus while everyone else in the household was not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t explicitly address this topic, which leaves many wondering what to do, including a reader who asked about the topic through our Curious Philly platform. Curious Philly is where readers ask us questions and reporters hunt down the answers.