Print article Visit Healthcare has been providing weekly COVID-19 vaccinations for members of Anchorage’s unsheltered community by bringing the vaccine to them. During their fourth mobile vaccine clinic, Visit Healthcare workers offered COVID-19 tests to attendees and prepared upwards of 20 vaccine doses. Food and blankets, personally provided by employees, were given to those who stopped by the clinic. In the back seat of a small car, registered nurse Emma Jacobson worked quickly to prepare the Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots. Registered nurse Emma Jacobson works on paperwork for doses of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine she drew for patients at the mobile clinic. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
February 24, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has had a seismic impact on the restaurant industry over the past year: countless closings and hibernations, lost income and wages, continuous pivots, and a heightened emphasis on takeout and delivery, for starters.
But what about the physical restaurants themselves?
Before the pandemic, you might have found the interior of your favorite local eatery packed with tables and chairs, paper menus stacked by a host stand, and not a patio table in sight. Now, one section of a dining room might be cordoned off for takeout orders, while those who are dining in scroll through a menu on their phones. Outside, heat lamps glow by bistro tables on narrow, snowy sidewalks.