Source: Kendall McGee, WECT, 5/15/20

 If you’ve visited the meat section of a grocery store lately, you’ve likely seen less product on the shelves than usual. As workers at meat processing plants across the country fall ill with the coronavirus, backups have inevitably emerged. The Smithfield Tar Heel plant is the largest pork processing plant in the world, with 5,000 workers processing an average of 30,000 hogs a day. In the last few weeks, dozens of coronavirus cases have been reported there. While the North Carolina plant continues to operate...

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