Hard-hit restaurants feed Covid doctors, nurses to survive

Oregon Health & Science University nurses preparing to eat a meal delivered to the hospital's frontline Covid-19 healthcare workers in a break room. Photos: AP

It was the week after Christmas and coronavirus case numbers and hospitalisations were soaring in Portland, Oregon in the United States.

At Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the state’s largest hospital, morale was low. Doctors and nurses caring for the most critically ill were burning out just when they were needed the most.