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Nightbird Restaurant chef and owner Kim Alter, left, mimics giving a hug to nurse practitioner Sydney Gressel, center, and patient care technician Matt Phillips after delivering dinner to them at University of California at San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco, March 27, 2020. A group of tech-savvy, entrepreneurial San Francisco friends wanted to help two groups devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. They came up with a plan that involved soliciting donations, tapping friends in the restaurant world and getting San Francisco hospitals to accept free food cooked up by some of the city's top chefs. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)FILE - In this Thursday, April 30, 2020 file photo, Galina Yakovleva pulls a cart with a charity food and goods to a woman in need in St.Petersburg, Russia. Every day amid the coronavirus pandemic, the 80-year-old Leningrad siege survivor Galina Yakovleva has driven to the city in her minivan to bring charity groceries and goods to elderly people and families with children in need. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)FILE - In this Monday, April 27, 2020 file photo, a small crowd gathers in Manhattan's Upper West Side to hear stage star Brian Stokes Mitchell sing "The Impossible Dream" from his apartment window in New York. After recovering from the coronavirus, the admired actor and singer opens his window overlooking Broadway each evening to serenade a crowd with his signature song from "Man of La Mancha." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)FILE - In this Friday, April 24, 2020 file photo, Dennis Ruhnke holds two of his remaining N-95 masks as he stands with his wife, Sharon at their home near Troy, Kan. Dennis, a retired farmer, shipped one of the couple's five masks left over from his farming days to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for use by a doctor or a nurse. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)FILE - In this Wednesday, May 27, 2020 file photo, medical worker Kenza, center and Nassima, left, attend a training session with boxer Hassan N'Dam at the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges hospital, outside Paris. The world champion French boxer is taking his skills to hospitals, coaching staff to thank the medical profession for saving his father-in-law from the virus, and giving them new confidence and relief from their stressful jobs. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Nightbird Restaurant chef and owner Kim Alter, left, mimics giving a hug to nurse practitioner Sydney Gressel, center, and patient care technician Matt Phillips after delivering dinner to them at University of California at San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco, March 27, 2020. A group of tech-savvy, entrepreneurial San Francisco friends wanted to help two groups devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. They came up with a plan that involved soliciting donations, tapping friends in the restaurant world and getting San Francisco hospitals to accept free food cooked up by some of the city's top chefs. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
