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Supply and Demand in Restaurants and Bars during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Supply and Demand in Restaurants and Bars during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rachel La Corte in the article “New COVID-19 Restrictions on Dining, Gyms in
Washington,” talks about the measures taken by the Washington governor, Jay Inslee to
restrict local businesses as well as discourage social gatherings for one month starting on
November 15 , 2020 to assist in combatting the increasing infections of Coronavirus among
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residents (La Corte, 2020). The author goes further into describing how businesses like
restaurants and bars will have to limit their to-go services as well as outdoor dining. It has
been mandated that a single table is allocated a maximum of five customers while in normal
circumstances; such a space should be occupied with at most ten customers. The author
provides other facts such as existing research depicting that only 1% of all the patients of
COVID-19 in Washington have been claimed to acquire the disease in restaurants or bars (La
