481 Tyson Foods Employees Test Positive for COVID-19

westernjournal.com ^ | 6/21/2020 | ap

[bitt]

Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China’s customs agency has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United States after coronavirus cases were confirmed among its employees.

A Tyson spokesman said Sunday that the plant in question is in Springdale, Arkansas.

A Tyson spokesman said Sunday that the plant in question is in Springdale, Arkansas.

“At Tyson, our top priority is the health and safety of our team members, and we work closely with the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to ensure that we produce all of our food in full compliance with government safety requirements,” wrote spokesman Gary Mickelson in an email to The Associated Press.

[mikey_hates_everything]

I’d probably be concerned if the headline said “481...dead from COVID-19”.

[mozarky2]

“Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China’s customs agency has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United States after coronavirus cases were confirmed among its employees”.
You could cut the irony with a knife!
The country that sent us the WuFlu Cooties is refusing our CHICKEN?!?!?
I’m in WalMart, Tyson, JB Hunt ground zero!
They should have shut those chicken plants down MONTHS ago!
We are the best part of the entire state of Arkansas!
Arkansas out of chicken plants, chicken plants out of Arkansas! Send them to CHAZ!
Never happen, though-chicken executives making too much money from low-wage Hispanics that THEY smuggle in!

[mozarky2]

“Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China’s customs agency has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United States after coronavirus cases were confirmed among its employees”.
You could cut the irony with a knife!
The country that sent us the WuFlu Cooties is refusing our CHICKEN?!?!?
I’m in WalMart, Tyson, JB Hunt ground zero!
They should have shut those chicken plants down MONTHS ago!
We are the best part of the entire state of Arkansas!
Arkansas out of chicken plants, chicken plants out of Arkansas! Send them to CHAZ!
Never happen, though-chicken executives making too much money from low-wage Hispanics that THEY smuggle in!

[mozarky2]

The post so nice, I made it twice.
I have NO idea how that happened...

[Outlaw76]

We lost several of the Marshall islanders who got it. Last time I looked it was 7.
It's also hitting the Hispanic population pretty hard.
The Marshallese are an unhealthy lot that are a very tight nit community.
The Hispanics are very likely to carpool and have huge extended families.

[Parmy]

So!

[Robert DeLong]

No, its the result of trying to stop the spread, which just resulted in a delay of the spread. Besides number of cases meaning nothing.

[mass55th]

Thankfully I never buy Tyson products.

[BerryDingle]

Of the 3,748 employees tested, 481 tested positive for coronavirus infection, and 455 were asymptomatic.

Which means this news article is almost completely meaningless.

[gitmo]

That’s 7/10 of one percent of the employees got sick.

[Joe 6-pack]

"The Clintons had ties with Tyson Chicken way back when."

IIRC, Tyson's paid the Clintons some pretty handsome campaign donation to get the State Department to help expand their market in China. I don't recall specifically if they got tariffs reduced on their exports or the exact nature of the "assistance" Tyson's received in return, but I'm almost certain it had to do with their Chinese exports.

[elpadre]

I understand these are all healthy workers who are carrying the bug. Am I right? No one in the hospital?