Last week, Ed Russo hosted a wine dinner party. Months ago, seeing the owner of Russo Italian Restaurant in Worcester hosting such an event would be ordinary, but everything has changed amid the coronavirus pandemic - including dinner parties.

The 20 guests, friends from Worcester Academy, ate Russo’s food and drank his wine all miles apart while sitting in front of computer screens on Zoom. “They got dressed like they were going to a wine dinner,” Russo said. “That’s really what was fun about it as well.