COVID-19 crisis intensifies at Wisconsin food plants: 1 dead, 100 more test positive

[riversedge]

COVID-19 crisis intensifies at Wisconsin food plants: 1 dead, 100 more test positive


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-crisis-intensifies-at-wisconsin-food-plants-1-dead-100-more-test-positive/ar-BB13kDhf?li=BBnb7Kz

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The COVID-19 crisis in Wisconsin food processing plants continues to intensify, with more than 100 workers at a Darien facility testing positive for the virus and an employee at a Pleasant Prairie plant dying from the illness.

The Pleasant Prairie employee, according to medical examiner records, died April 15. When the Journal Sentinel posed questions Monday to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration regarding the death, the agency said it would open an investigation and conduct an on-site inspection.

OSHA officials say they are now investigating seven Wisconsin food processing plants over virus-related concerns.The agency had been saying for weeks that it wouldn’t crack down on businesses that didn’t abide by COVID-19 safety guidelines.



Workers and advocates say that at some plants, employees have been asked to work closely together without protection or to report to work even if they showed COVID-19 symptoms.



It's unclear how many meatpacking and food processing workers in Wisconsin have been infected. Wisconsin Department of Health Services spokeswoman Jennifer Miller said the agency did not have the number of essential workers infected readily available.
Officials won't release number of infected workers
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[beachbumbob]

1. going to get MUCH MUCH worse as it pretty sure thing the owners will be given a shield

when it comes to liability to their workers and customers getting sick and DYING

then this gets real

[Squinch]

2. I know you can't catch the virus through food, but the packaging

out of those places must be teeming with virus. I imagine just picking up the package, or putting it in your grocery bag with other items must be dangerous.

I wash everything that comes in from the grocery store, but a lot of packages have nooks and crannies that a scrub brush doesn't get.

Yeah. This is going to spike again, and maybe a lot higher of a spike.

[Iliyah]

3. republicans don't care . . .

t-rump is forcing them back to work.