Emails reveal chaos as meatpacking companies fought health agencies over COVID-19 outbreaks in their plants. 12/06/2020
Article
Grabell, Michael ; Perlman, Claire ; Yeung, Bernice
2020
epidemic disease ; meat industry ; working conditions ; occupational safety and health
Food and beverage industries
English
"Thousands of pages of documents obtained by ProPublica show how quickly public health agencies were overwhelmed by meatpacking cases. One CEO described social distancing as “a nicety that makes sense only for people with laptops.”".
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