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Signs on door of a Graeter's ice cream parlor in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati during government-mandated closings. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the United States restaurant industry via government closures, resulting in layoffs of workers and loss of income for restaurants and owners and threatening the survival of independent restaurants as a category.
The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of Oklahoma was reported on March 7, 2020, with the first confirmed COVID-19 death occurring on March 18. [3] For the 7 days ending May 19, 2021, Oklahoma public health authorities reported 965 new cases of COVID-19, for a cumulative total of 451,280 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
There are certain restrictions on what you can purchase with SNAP funds, including alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, vitamins, medicines, supplements, live animals and other non-food items.
Communities like mine in rural northwest Oklahoma have long been food deserts. This is an unfortunate reality for most of our state, which is the 10th-least food-secure state.
No city in America escaped the COVID-19 pandemic that started in March 2020. Oklahoma did not mandate shut-downs to the degree as other states, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity intensified in many places. In the second quarter of 2020, there were multiple warnings of famine later in the year. [3] [4] In an early report, the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Oxfam-International talks about "economic devastation" [5] while the lead-author of the UNU-WIDER report compared COVID-19 to a "poverty tsunami". [6]
Last year, thousands of Oklahoma families received a white, plastic card in the mail. It looked like a credit card, but it was labeled P-EBT and had a 16-digit number on the front.