Widespread efforts to get healthy meals to hospital workers are getting a boost from a cadre of Hollywood insiders. Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Joel McHale, Aimee Carpenter and Leslee Feldman have teamed with Frontline Foods, a grassroots organization formed amid the current novel coronavirus crisis that raises funds to pay local restaurants to prepare meals for hospital and health care workers.
To date, backed by 400 volunteers, more than $1.6 million has been raised and more than 50,000 meals have been delivered to 50 hospitals across the United States.
The effort has helped support 135 restaurants in an industry that has been decimated by widespread closures as part of orders enacted to help curb the spread of the.