While the pandemic has highlighted the value of partnership, it has also demonstrated the damaging effects of unilateral action and unequal access to resources,…
(NYTIMES) - I ve had my first Covid-19 vaccine jab, drawn from the limited supply of the AstraZeneca doses that has made its way to the developing world. As a senior, I m part of a so-called priority sector eligible to receive it in the Philippines, a country where less than 0.3 per cent of the population has been fully vaccinated - versus 32 per cent in the United States. I m one of the lucky ones.
Globally, more than 1.16 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered as of Monday. Over 80 per cent have gone to people in high- or upper-middle-income countries and only 0.2 per cent to those in low-income countries like the Philippines. At present, India is suffering from a devastating surge of the virus, with over 350,000 infections and 3,000 deaths recorded daily over the past few days. (These figures most likely undercount the full extent of the horror.) Only 2 per cent of its people have been fully vaccinated. While US President Joe Biden s recent deployment of aid to
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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.
A health worker waits to receive a Covid-19 vaccine at a government hospital in Mumbai, India, in January. | Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo
By RIKHA SHARMA RANI
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Rikha Sharma Rani is a writer in Oakland, California, and a contributing editor at Politico Magazine. Follow her at @rikrani.
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