Source: RAPID CITY JOURNAL, 8/6/20



The CDC has released a study in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report detailing how COVID-19 spread inside Smithfield Foods, which accounted for more than 1,100 coronavirus cases in South Dakota between March and April and 41% of the cases in community residents at the time. The state health department had previously reported that 853 employees and 245 of their close contacts had contracted COVID-19 in the outbreak, but the CDC study shows that 929 employees and 210 of their close contacts contracted coronavirus from March 16 to April 25.

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