Source: Maura Barrett, MSN, 3/12/21

 A year after meatpacking worker Sandra Silbert found herself praying in the locker room before her shifts and making her own masks to protect against Covid-19 on the assembly line, the timeline for vaccines to protect essential workers is still hazy. "They don’t care [about] us. They don’t care in the beginning of the pandemic, and they don't care now,” said Silbert, who has worked in the hambone department at the Sioux Falls Smithfield plant for 15 years. "If we were a priority, they would give us the vaccine. But when people treat us like that, we feel alone.”

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