KUOW - We re doing the best we can Seattle restaurants are feeling the pressure with Covid cases on the rise again
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Delta variant means restaurants are in trouble again
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Women, veteran and minority restaurant owners lose COVID relief money after lawsuit
Money that was supposed to go to restaurants owned by women, minorities and veterans was taken away after a group of white men sued claiming discrimination. Author: Eric Wilkinson Updated: 5:11 PM PDT July 5, 2021
SEATTLE A federal relief program designed to help women, minority and veteran restaurant owners survive the pandemic has backfired on them.
It has been all Chelley Bassett could do to keep the doors of her beloved Murphy s Pub open during the pandemic. It s been really rough, she said. We ve been doing whatever we can to stay open. We cut the staff down to just me, my business partner, the head chef and one cook.
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The United States’ first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported north of Seattle in Snohomish County in January 2020. Washington state also saw the nation’s first deadly outbreak, at a nursing home east of Seattle.
Oregon had its first reported COVID-19 case a month later. Hector Calderon, a janitor in a Portland metro-area school district spent 71 days in the hospital, 60 of them on a ventilator, and was in a coma for 50 days.
“God gave me another opportunity to live, and the doctor’s did,” Calderon said at the governor’s reopening event in Portland. He added he is ready to finally go on a vacation again as restrictions are lifted.