With $6 million of support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen launches today food service operations at two NYC locations, with a plan to be functioning across 16 NYC Health + Hospitals facilities by Monday, April 27. According to the press release:

The collaboration will feed all NYC Health + Hospitals hospital, acute, and post-acute care staff plus additional personnel who have joined their ranks at these facilities, regardless of their department, discipline, or tour, seven days a week, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. from a uniquely designed grab-and-go "cafeteria." World Central Kitchen and NYC Health + Hospitals have strategized a variety of internal and external set-ups tailored to each individual facility's needs, ensuring that the highest safety standards are met, frontline workers experience little to no wait for meal dissemination, and that food is available to staff who work overnight shifts. The partnership aims to also meet workers' dietary restrictions with as little burden as possible.

Through its #ChefsForAmerica response to COVID-19, World Central Kitchen has been distributing 50,000 meals a day in the Bronx, Queens, Harlem, Brooklyn and New Jersey. The new partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies will allow World Central Kitchen to increase production at their meal distribution center at Hudson Yards and establish contracts with local vendors and restaurants to assist in providing thousands of additional fresh meals for the NYC Health + Hospitals staff.

In addition to supporting NYC’s hungry, exhausted healthcare workers, the initiative will allow some local restaurants to bring back employees in s first step to revive the ailing NYC restaurant industry. To offer your own financial support to the NYC, USA and global efforts of World Central Kitchen, click here.

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks at a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday. Gerald Herbert/AP

MSNBC has irritated the hell out of me for creating the narrative that Mike sits in some ivory tower world, running a presidential campaign based solely on his money.

Why doesn't Bloomberg press the flesh, they ask? Is he afraid of people seeing that at 5'8", he's not a very impressive character? Will Mike be revealed as "the emperor with no clothes" like in the Wizzard of Oz? The smugness of the MSNBC anchors about Mike is just stunning to watch?

Speaking in Greensboro, N.C. Thurs., Bloomberg used his rally to respond to Trump's latest insults. "He calls me Little Mike and the answer is, Donald, where I come from, we measure from your neck up," he said.

People Are Coming in Large #s to See Mike

Crowds cheered, writes NPR. Voters are thrilled that Mike is taking it to Trump and crowds Bloomberg's attacks on Trump inspired hope in packed coffee shops, community centers, music clubs and even a train station from Chattanooga, Tenn., Nashville, Tenn., Winston-Salem, N.C., Greensboro, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C. and onto Houston last night. Undecided voters came out to hear Mike and makes their own decisions about Mike Bloomberg.

Recent national polling showed that two-thirds of voters -- including Democrats --aren't upset over a billionaire running for president. And many are considering that it may take more than a billion $$$ to beat Trump.

Listening to MSNBC, you would think that Mike is bombing all over America. In fact, the opposite is happening. Stay tunes. Super Tuesday is coming soon.