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A coronavirus outbreak at the Farmer John pork processing plant in Los Angeles County that began nearly a year ago has been the focus of two state investigations.
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Linda Traylor got custody of her six grandchildren so they could stay put. Stability and the fact that they liked the schools in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, was important. Their father, who worked on tobacco and horse farms in Kentucky, had been deported to Mexico in 2015 and their mother traveled wherever she could find work.
Dozens of COVID-19 infections shut down Detroit Whole Foods
On Tuesday, February 23, a Whole Foods location in the Midtown neighborhood of Detroit temporarily shut down and asked customers to leave. Shortly after, Detroit’s chief public health officer Denise Fair confirmed a massive outbreak at the store in a press release, urging residents who had visited the location between February 12 and 22 to quarantine and monitor symptoms. Twenty-three of 196 employees tested positive for COVID-19.
One worker told the local
Metro Times that employees receive updates about co-workers’ positive tests via automated text message and that the previous weekend, “[We] were getting so many text messages … that we thought it was spam, that they didn’t know what it was.” Before the Tuesday evening shutdown, management asked employees to get rapid COVID tests during store hours at a nearby testing location, and so many employees were sent home that the store was “like a ghost town”