The nation’s top infectious disease expert said infections are happening at a higher rate among those minority populations, in part because of occupations and living conditions that lend themselves to more person-to-person contact.
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As the pandemic wears on, hundreds of families line up in a drive-thru for food from the Chesterfield Food Bank George Copeland Jr. | 12/31/2020, 6 p.m. Hundreds of cars line up in orderly rows to received free food from the Chesterfield Food bankâs drive-thru operation on Iron bridge Road in Chester. Officials have seen the need for help skyrocket during the pandemic with more and more people out of work. Photo courtesy of Chesterfield Food Bank
For Tatanisha Rodriguez, the experience of going to a food bank for help for the first time just a week shy of Christmas produced a multitude of emotions and reactions.
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Central Virginia food bank provides hunger relief during pandemic (FILE) (Source: WVIR) By David Tran | December 15, 2020 at 1:14 PM EST - Updated December 15 at 1:14 PM
RICHMOND, Va. – When COVID-19 was declared a national emergency at the beginning of March, Feed More, a hunger-relief organization serving central Virginians, was serving roughly 161,000 food-insecure individuals.
Fast forward to early June, Feed More was assisting more than 241,000 food-insecure individuals, according to Doug Pick, CEO and president of Feed More.
“It (the pandemic) increased the number of folks that weren’t sure where their next meal was coming from by about 50%,” Pick said.
That 50% increase, he said, was largely from those who were newly unemployed as a result of the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity throughout Virginia and across the country. With 2020 coming to a close, food insecurity is lingering in many Virginia households as hunger-relief org