Source: Pramod Acharya, THE COUNTER, 9/21/20


When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials visited Smithfield Foods’ meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, earlier this year, they came away with an unsurprising conclusion. Departments in the plant where workers had to crowd together to do their jobs had more cases of COVID-19 than departments where workers could space out, according to the CDC’s August report.

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