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WHAT THE CLUCK?

Almost 200 Workers at California Chicken Plant Have COVID

That’s one out of every seven employees at the Foster Farms factory, which is being shuttered.

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By Tracy Connor

At the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 swept meat-processing plants across the nation—and it’s happening again. The latest outbreak is at a Foster Farms chicken factory in Fresno, California, where 193 out of 1,400 employees have contracted the virus, forcing a shutdown for “deep cleaning.” The Fresno Bee reports that none of the workers had symptoms, which means they could have unknowingly spread the virus across the community. An outbreak at a Foster Farms plant in Livingston this summer killed nine workers.

Read it at The Fresno Bee

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