How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.For weeks, Rachel Willard, the county health director in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, had watched with alarm as COVID-19 cases rolled in from the Tyson Foods chicken plant in the center of town. Then Tyson hired a private company to take over testing, and the information suddenly slowed to a trickle.Blinded to the burgeoning health crisis, Willard and her small staff grew increasingly agitated. The outbreak had already...…How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.For weeks, Rachel Willard, the county health director in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, had watched with alarm as COVID-19 cases rolled in from the Tyson Foods chicken plant in the center of town. Then Tyson hired a private company to take over testing, and the information suddenly slowed to a trickle.Blinded to the burgeoning health crisis, Willard and her small staff grew increasingly agitated. The outbreak had already...WW…

How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.Frustrated by the lack of response to their complaint of the “imminent danger” posed by COVID-19, three meatpacking workers at the Maid-Rite Specialty Foods plant outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania, took the unusual step Wednesday of against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia.The lawsuit, filed in a Pennsylvania federal court, accuses the government of failing to protect...…How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.Frustrated by the lack of response to their complaint of the “imminent danger” posed by COVID-19, three meatpacking workers at the Maid-Rite Specialty Foods plant outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania, took the unusual step Wednesday of against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia.The lawsuit, filed in a Pennsylvania federal court, accuses the government of failing to protect...WW…

How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.At the end of June, with hundreds of his workers already infected with COVID-19 and several dead, Kenneth Sullivan, the CEO of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, sent a pointed to two U.S. senators who had launched an investigation into outbreaks in meatpacking plants and industry warnings of an impending food shortage.In blunt, unapologetic terms, Sullivan chastised critics for suggesting Smithfield...…How the Meatpacking Industry Became a Hotbed of COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.At the end of June, with hundreds of his workers already infected with COVID-19 and several dead, Kenneth Sullivan, the CEO of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, sent a pointed to two U.S. senators who had launched an investigation into outbreaks in meatpacking plants and industry warnings of an impending food shortage.In blunt, unapologetic terms, Sullivan chastised critics for suggesting Smithfield...WW…