Source: WFAE, 5/29/20


Meatpacking plants are breeding grounds for COVID-19 among workers. Plant employees typically stand shoulder-to-shoulder on their feet for hours at a time, shoving and cutting carcasses. The work causes them to breathe heavily, and if they have COVID-19, they are spreading virus into the air, said Dr. Lisa Gralinski, an assistant professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Gralinski, who has studied coronaviruses since 2008, said these processing facilities house a combination of risk factors.

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