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RIP – Erica Chang, Motivated by the Pandemic to Help, Dies at 24 – The New York Times

Erica Chang, who was born in Flushing, Queens, graduated from Texas A&M University in 2019 with dual degrees. She was a rising star in the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. She had contemplated a career in medicine, possibly as a doctor. But when the coronavirus struck, she decided instead to focus on how to better deliver care.

“She made the career change to become a project manager,” the society said in a statement, “seeing the need for process improvements in the health care system, especially during a pandemic.”

Ms. Chang, who lived in Katy, Texas, just west of Houston, died on April 6 of complications of Covid-19, said Khanh Vu, the chief executive and executive director of the society. She was 24.

Her parents were also infected. Her father, Chi-Kai Chang, died of the coronavirus five days later. He was 57.

Donna Coleman died after Covid ran riot at Burnley College. Should it have been open? | Society | The Guardian (Me: Boris Johnson and his ilk killed Donna Coleman with their incompetence!)

 It was an absurd farce. Within 24 hours, Johnson had gone from reassuring the public that schools were safe to admitting they may be “vectors for transmission”. The mass-testing capabilities that schools had built over the Christmas break, when they could have been putting their energy and resources into setting up remote learning packages, were mothballed.

But Donna was oblivious to the chaos. Late in the evening of 3 January, her organs started to fail. On 6 January, Donna’s family got the call they had been dreading. “I wanted to hold her hand,” Steph says. “She wasn’t going on her own.” Vicki, Steph and Donna’s father were allowed to visit. They felt that Donna wasn’t in that sterile hospital room, but had already left her body. “I said: ‘Let’s do it. Put her at peace.’”

Steph and Vicki each took their sister’s hand. Their father held their hands. Doctors turned off the ventilator. “I lost Donna the minute they put her on the ventilator,” says Vicki. “When they rang up to say she wasn’t responding and her organs were failing, it was like someone just shot me. They tore my heart out that night.” After 10 minutes, at 8.45am, Donna died. Steph, Vicki and their father embraced, collected her things and went home.

Source: Donna Coleman died after Covid ran riot at Burnley College. Should it have been open? | Society | The Guardian

COVID: Why is India censoring media during public health crisis? | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 27.04.2021

Media watchdogs believe that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power at the federal level since 2014, simply cannot tolerate criticism and wants to control the public narrative.

“The government’s first instinct is to control information,” Pamela Philipose, media commentator and ombudsman for The Wire news outlet, told DW.

“Of course, pandemics lead to misinformation, but a blunt censorship tool such as wide-ranging takedowns is most unhelpful as it suppresses important information,” she added.

“Earlier, what we witnessed was shoot the messenger. Now, the government is shooting the platform too,” Sevanti Ninan, a media critic, told DW.

“Covering the pandemic is a huge challenge for the press and we need to know how it is playing it out on the ground,” said Ninan,  who is founding editor of The Hoot, India’s first media watchdog.

Source: COVID: Why is India censoring media during public health crisis? | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 27.04.2021

Australians trapped in India during COVID-19 crisis fear for their families’ survival – ABC News

Shivang and his wife Krimja Desai

“Everybody here wants to go back home because it’s very bad up here in India,” he said.

Mr Desai is one of around 9,000 Australians in India who want to come home, with 650 of those considered vulnerable.

But the government’s decision to pause flights from India to Australia means they won’t be able to leave any time soon.

“Because I am really very desperate to come to Australia, I feel heartbroken,” Mr Desai said.

“But I totally trust that what [the government] is doing is for the greater good of the community.

“They are looking out for all Australians, which is considered a COVID-free country and of course [the government] doesn’t want to start the spread of COVID.”

Source: Australians trapped in India during COVID-19 crisis fear for their families’ survival – ABC News