As COVID-19 surge devastates India, Austinites come together to send aid, prayers and hope Hojun Choi, Austin American-Statesman
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Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before. It’s a sad situation everywhere you look. I really don’t know what we can do for these people, but we really want to do some little bit, Tewari said. We have to do something.
Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before. It’s a sad situation everywhere you look. I really don’t know what we can do for these people, but we really want to do some little bit, Tewari said. We have to do something.
India suffers from a shortage of oxygen tanks, so Tewari and a small group of her friends in Austin are searching for ways to buy and ship medical devices that concentrate the oxygen in the air and make it available to treat COVID-19 patients. They have started a GoFundMe page to raise funds for the effort.
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People get COVID-19 vaccines during a drive-in clinic in the old Montgomery Mall parking lot in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday.
Montgomery: The state will roughly double the number of people eligible to receive immunizations against COVID-19 this month even though there’s still not enough vaccine for everyone who qualifies for a shot, the head of the state health agency said Friday. Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, said everyone 65 and older, educators, court officials, corrections officers, postal employees, grocery store workers, some manufacturing workers, public transit workers, agriculture employees, state legislators and constitutional officers will be eligible to get vaccinations when the program expands Feb. 8. Currently, only people 75 and older, first responders, health care workers and long-term care residents ar
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Montgomery: The state will roughly double the number of people eligible to receive immunizations against COVID-19 this month even though there’s still not enough vaccine for everyone who qualifies for a shot, the head of the state health agency said Friday. Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, said everyone 65 and older, educators, court officials, corrections officers, postal employees, grocery store workers, some manufacturing workers, public transit workers, agriculture employees, state legislators and constitutional officers will be eligible to get vaccinations when the program expands Feb. 8. Currently, only people 75 and older, first responders, health care workers and long-term care residents are eligible. The state has been hearing complaints that more people aren’t allowed to get in line for shots. The change means as many as 1.5 million people in the state will qualify for shots, up from about 700,000 currently, H
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