How the History of Waterloo, Iowa, Explains How Meatpacking Plants Became Hotbeds of COVID-19 ProPublica 12/21/2020
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This spring, Waterloo, Iowa, became the site of one of the largest if not the largest COVID-19 workplace outbreaks in the United States. At the sprawling Tyson Foods pork plant on the eastern edge of town, at least 1,500 of the 2,800 workers have been infected with the virus, according to the county sheriff, who also heads the emergency management commission. Eight of those workers died, he said, and based on contact tracing, the cases tied to Tyson grow to 2,500 to 3,000. Waterloo was, in many ways, primed for an outbreak, and the reason lies in its history, which reflects the meatpacking industry’s dramatic transformation over the past half century. 1891
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