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    Begging for air: India's oxygen crisis imperils COVID response

    MEERUT, India — The men stood shoulder to shoulder in the blazing heat, their chests leaning against empty oxygen cylinders lodged in the dirt. They had come from all over to this makeshift oxygen tank-refilling center in a city 40 miles northeast of the Indian capital of New Delhi in a desperate bid to score what has become the most precious commodity in this pandemic-stricken nation. Police ...
    by David Pierson and Ahmer Khan, Los Angeles Times May 17, 2021 4 minutes

    MEERUT, India — The men stood shoulder to shoulder in the blazing heat, their chests leaning against empty oxygen cylinders lodged in the dirt.

    They had come from all over to this makeshift oxygen tank-refilling center in a city 40 miles northeast of the Indian capital of New Delhi in a desperate bid to score what has become the most precious commodity in this pandemic-stricken nation.

    Police and government officials guarded what little supply was available. They demanded to see medical records to ensure oxygen wouldn't be siphoned to the black market. One man who didn't have the proper paperwork held up a video showing his 6-year-old daughter struggling to breathe.

    "How am I supposed to show and prove that my daughter is dying?" he said.

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