{"id":27928,"date":"2021-05-03T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=27928"},"modified":"2021-05-03T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:02:01","slug":"billionaire-vinod-khosla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/billionaire-vinod-khosla\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American Billionaire Vinod Khosla, who Pledges Half of his Wealth to Charity, Donates $10M to COVID-hit India"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cYou can take an Indian out of India, but you can never take India out of an Indian\u201d. Indian Diaspora has once again stood up to this<\/strong>. From political heavyweights of America, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, to Indian American CEOs and billionaires \u2013 everyone has expressed solidarity and support for the COVID-hit India amid #oxygenemergency. After White House declined India\u2019s request for supply of vaccine raw materials, referring to the Biden administration\u2019s \u2018responsibility to the American people\u2019 as the first and foremost priority, President Biden agreed to return the favor with COVID aid package to India, following two days of the Indian American community\u2019s mounting pressure on him. In April 2020, India sent a consignment of hydroxychloroquine, an anti malarial drug, to its ally, USA, when the latter was slipping under the grips of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
In his urge to the White House, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi wrote<\/strong>, \u201cWe are currently sitting on close to 40 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the US stockpile, a stockpile which we\u2019re not using and which we\u2019ve already opened to combat the pandemic in Mexico and Canada. In order to protect public health and our international economy, we need to get these vaccines out the door now. I respectfully, but strongly, call on the Biden administration to release millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses to the hardest-hit countries, including India, Argentina, and potentially others.\u201d<\/p>\n