New: I obtained a Washington State emergency planning document that revealed deep concern about how food banks are holding up https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/washington-state-food-bank-shortages-revealed

Here’s what the situation report to the lead emergency agency said about food banks (NB this does not apply to food supplies in general and the article explains why)

Here’s some numbers (and this was a week ago)

Here’s what the head of a statewide food security NGO said - compared it with humanitarian emergencies overseas

Apart from donating to food banks and pressing your representatives about this issue, people can make a contribution here by not clearing out the stores. That is directly hitting the supplies food banks usually rely on: groceries close to sell by date

The CEO of Northwest Harvest has his own suggestion about what people can do

Last thing: as always if you have something to tell me about anything that might be happening in PNW re COVID-19 I have email addresses in my profile, DMs here, and U can call on +1 (503) 852-2710