Is dining out officially dead?

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today on Post Reports, investigative reporter Amy Brittain on the truth about Project Airbridge, a White House program set up to deliver badly needed personal protective equipment. Food reporter Laura Reiley explains the long road to recovery for restaurants. And Rachel Lerman says bartering is back in the time of the coronavirus.

Trump promised that Project Airbridge would deliver essential supplies to medical workers, but a Post investigation reveals the emergency program is swathed in secrecy and exaggeration.

As some states begin to open up, there’s concern that the dining experience will be forever changed by the pandemic.

What would you trade for a roll of toilet paper? Bartering is back in the time of the coronavirus.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jan Colley from the Post.
0:08.0	I'm a president for Power You Power.
0:11.0	Hi, it's Robert Given at the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm routine powers.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, May 13th.
0:22.0	Today, the truth behind a White House pandemic relief effort.
0:27.0	What restaurants will look like after the pandemic.
0:30.0	And the rise of bartering.
0:36.0	In the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic,
0:39.0	officials were facing a huge problem.
0:41.0	And that was widespread shortages of the personal protective gear
0:45.0	that's needed to protect doctors, nurses, and others
0:48.0	who are working on the frontlines and hospitals.
0:52.0	When the crisis broke, we had a reserve of 50,000 masks
0:57.0	that we were able to draw upon.
1:00.0	But we've gone through that relatively quickly.
1:03.0	Surgical gowns face surgical masks, gloves.
1:07.0	We need a lot, a lot more.
1:10.0	The big issue is that a lot of this protective gear,
1:14.0	gear like mask, gowns, gloves, it's made on the other side of the world,
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