Author: Michael Grabell, Claire Perlman & Bernice Yeung

Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants

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.” For weeks, Rachel Willard, the county health director in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, had watched with […]

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