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Liberty Call Distilling is giving out free bottles of hand sanitizer every weekend in Barrio Logan. -
KPBS Midday Edition"The Pandemic Pivot" is a new pop-up podcast series about people who are doing creative and innovative things to keep the community connected through COVID-19 isolation. -
Restaurants across San Diego are stepping up to feed healthcare workers and those who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus. One local pizza chain is doing both. -
Food writer Sam Sifton says the resurgence of family meals is one of the "precious few good things" to come of the pandemic. He says his family is eating a lot of tinned fish and cabbage these days. -
More than 6 million Americans have filed for unemployment as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise across the country. At least 20,000 San Diegans were laid off in March. -
KPBS Midday EditionWith many restaurants closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of pounds of perishable food have been donated and turned into meals for the needy. -
County officials said restaurants and grocery stores are following CDC guidelines to sanitize facilities and socially distance customers and staff. -
Drivers were instructed to go through the food-distribution lanes with their trunks open, as volunteers filled their cars with emergency groceries. -
With San Diegans being laid off and out of work because of the coronavirus, local food banks are working to increase their efforts. -
The historian Marcia Chatelain's new book, Franchise, outlines a forgotten history of McDonald's as a site of social protest and a mechanism black entrepreneurs hoped might spur black liberation.
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