A fired Tyson manager who bet on how many workers would get COVID-19 said the office pool was an attempt to boost morale yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Seven Tyson managers were fired earlier this month for betting on how many employees would test positive for COVID-19.
One of the managers at the Waterloo, Iowa, plant told The Associated Press that the pool was an attempt to boost morale among exhausted supervisors.
More than 1,000 workers at the plant have tested positive at least six have died.
Several Tyson Foods supervisors were fired earlier this year after reports emerged they had bet on how many of their Iowa employees would test positive for the coronavirus.
This week, one of the fired managers told the Associated Press that the office pool was an attempt to boost morale.
REVEALED: 99% of COVID patients who entered an Iowa hospital in April either worked at a Tyson Foods meatpacking plant or lived with someone who did
99% of COVID-19 patients who were admitted into an Iowa hospital in April either worked for Tyson Foods or lived with someone who did, report revealed
As virus quickly spread in Waterloo, filling up hospital beds at the Peoples Community Health Clinic, officials noticed the staggering pattern in patients
Staffers were also treating patients who had traveled from two hours away where an outbreak had shut down another Tyson plant in Columbus Junction
The revelation stems from an outbreak centered around the Waterloo plant that infected more than 1,500 employees, at least eight of whom died
Black Hawk County receives 2,350 COVID-19 vaccines for Waterloo health providers wcfcourier.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wcfcourier.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WATERLOO â Two of Waterlooâs major health care systems expect to receive doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in coming days, according to hospital officials.
Both UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital and MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center officials said health care workers who are most exposed to COVID-19 will get the vaccine first. The Black Hawk County Health Department did not yet release the number of vaccine doses it will distribute to local health care systems.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized emergency distribution of the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine, which had 95% efficacy in clinical trials, is manufactured by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech. An advisory panel will vote Thursday on whether to recommend another COVID-19 vaccineâs approval by the FDA. The vaccine, also found to have about 95% efficacy in clinical trials, is manufactured by Moderna.