Thursday, January 14, 2021

COVID & meat-packing

"Up to 8 percent of coronavirus cases in the United States in the first five months of the pandemic could be linked to infections among meatpacking workers" (source) and an article from today's Washington Post says that "Coronavirus cases among meatpackers alone accounted for up to 20 percent of [Nebraska’s] cases over the summer." In Tyson's chicken plants in the state, "witnesses who worked in the plants testified that ... they are forced to breathe through blood-soaked paper masks for hours."