PA
Hazleton meat-packaging plant closes with 130 workers testing positive for COVID-19
Union leader at Souderton plant died last Friday
BOB FERNANDEZ
The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
APR 10, 2020 10:21 AM
Cargill Meat Solutions, a 900-worker plant in Hazleton, Pa., that packages meat in plastic for supermarket shelves in Pennsylvania and surrounding states, has shut down temporarily after 130 hourly workers tested positive for COVID-19 and a rash of employees called out sick, a union leader said.
That is not good at all.
So.
How long does it live on the meat in the packages...
We were going to do a brief grocery pickup to replace the dairy/meat we’ve used but now wondering about that...
I can do without dairy.
I NEED to find out if our state teaching hospital, where most of the patients with this are, is using that protocol yet.
MA
Federal investigation launched into Holyoke Soldiers’ Home after 32 residents recently died
HOLYOKE, MASS. (WHDH) - A federal investigation has been launched into the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home to examine whether the nursing home for veterans violated the rights of residents by failing to provide them medical care generally and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division opened the investigation after 32 residents recently died, including 28 who tested positive for the coronavirus. In total, 69 residents and 68 staff members have contracted the virus as of Thursday.