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Re: Coronavirus Cases at Iowa Meat Plant Double to 1,000+ on Same Day It Reopens

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Fri, 08 May 20 5:48 PM | 13 view(s)
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But are these people allowed to go to work? They never clarified that. If that many people are testing positive, where are they getting the people who they're calling back to work? And if you read the original article, it states the only employees who will be required to wear face masks are those who don't have a plastic shield between them and the next person on the line. This implies that a lot of the people in the plant will not be wearing any additional PPE.




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Coronavirus Cases at Iowa Meat Plant Double to 1,000+ on Same Day It Reopens
By: clo in FFFT3
Fri, 08 May 20 2:29 PM 		Msg. 57572 of 65535

Coronavirus Cases at Iowa Meat Plant Double to 1,000+ on Same Day It Reopens
Jamie Ross Reporter
Updated May. 08, 2020

The number of workers who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus at an Iowa meat plant doubled on the same day that the facility reopened following a two-week closure, the Des Moines Register reports. More than 1,000 employees at the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo have now tested positive for the disease, public officials confirmed Thursday, a day after Gov. Kim Reynolds said there had been just under 500 cases.

“It’s high. It’s really high. It’s surprising to hear those numbers on the same day they're reopening the plant,” said Chris Schwartz, a Black Hawk County supervisor.

Schwartz added that Tyson officials should have acted sooner to protect its employees, calling the slow action of company bosses “incredibly shameful.” Tyson reportedly said it’s now requiring all returning workers to be tested for COVID-19, and those who haven’t been tested won’t be allowed to return to work.

Read it at Des Moines Register

http://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-cases-at-iowa-meat-plant-double-to-1000-on-same-day-it-reopens?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition

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