Overseas Indians hope renaming of Covid-19 variants will reduce stigma
What was officially a difficult jumble of numbers and widely referred to as the "Indian variant" is now just the Delta variant. A doctor of Indian origin, who was on Covid-19 duty in a Texas hospital for most of the past year, said he had become especially conscious about his ethnicity in recent months. In April, a Caucasian infected with the coronavirus refused to let the 30-something doctor see him, and demanded different physicians till the one assigned was not of East or South Asian descent. "It was my worst day at work," said the doctor, who, like the others interviewed for this report, ...
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