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…
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