India is now the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. An estimated 3,000 people are dying there daily, many of them in hospital beds, unable to get access to life-saving oxygen. Less than 2% of India’s population has been vaccinated.

The tragedy there is deeply felt in New Jersey, home to some 400,000 residents of Indian descent, the third-largest population of any state in the U.S. Several relief efforts are underway here, from a GoFundMe page to help raise money for food to the Edison chapter of the global Punjabi Chamber of Commerce tackling the oxygen shortage.

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