900 Tyson Workers Test Positive

[fmdog44]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...nt-indiana-test-positive-coronavirus-n1197776
Nearly 900 employees, 40 percent of the workforce, at a Tyson Foods pork-processing plant in Indiana have tested positive for the coronavirus. The plant in Logansport halted operations April 25, one of several Tyson plants across the country that have voluntarily closed in an effort to help contain the spread of the virus. The Cass County Health Department's administrator, Serenity Alter, said 890 employees at the plant have tested positive so far, and that a couple of hundred of others still need to be screened. Hli Yang, a spokeswoman for the company, said the Logansport plant employs 2,200 people. She declined to confirm the number who have tested positive for the virus.

 

[WhatInThe]

Cool enclosed meat plants are probably the ideal breading grounds for this and other viruses. This tells me meat plants have been probably spreading a lot of things over the years besides ecoli judging by the numbers.

 

[Sunny]

I wonder, why meat-processing as opposed to other food processing plants? Aren't the workers who are packaging grains, eggs, cheese, spices, etc. working in similarly close quarters? And how about factory workers in general?

From what I understand, this disease is spread by droplets from one person to another, not from meat. And you mentioned e coli. I thought that was spread by animal waste, and lots of cases have been caused by what's on produce. Recently, romaine lettuce has been blamed for many outbreaks.

You may be right about the cool enclosed meat plants. But what about dairy plants? Aren't they also cool and enclosed?