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To: mad_as_he$$

There are several plants with outbreaks

Smithfield, in SD (293 cases, closed)
JBS in Greeley, CO (2, deaths, 14 hospitalized, 300 sick)
JBS in Grand Island, NE (28 sick)
JBS in Souderton, PA (shut until April 16)
Cargill in Hazelton, PA (160 test positive, closed until further notice)
Tyson in Camilla, GA - 3 deaths ? infections
Tyson in Columbus Junction, IA (24 cases, Closed for a week)
National Beef Packing Co, Tampa, IA (shut until April 13)
Aurora Packing Company, Aurora, IL (closed until ?)
Sanderson Farms Inc, Moultrie, Georgia (reducing operations by 300k birds)

CANADA
Harmony Beef in Alberta (shut two days)
Maple Leaf Foods (3 cases, closed)
Olymel pork plant in Quebec, shut March 29 (50 workers sick)

A thread with source links and updates is here: https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/-2019-ncov-new-coronavirus/united-states-2019-ncov/846612-meat-plants-shutting-down-for-cleaning-smithfield-shutting-u-s-pork-plant-indefinitely-warns-of-meat-shortages-during-pandemic?p=848712#post848712


791 posted on 04/13/2020 6:38:00 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: LilFarmer

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Coronavirus Concerns Rise as Ohio Valley Meatpacking Workers Fall Sick

By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
Posted on: Friday, April 10, 2020

HINTON, W.Va. (OVR) — As the number of coronavirus cases surge across the country, some meatpacking facilities have been temporarily shuttered due to workers falling ill to the virus. Three workers in Georgia have even died.

With workers at some Ohio Valley facilities now testing positive for the virus, worker safety advocates are raising concerns about how adequately workers are being protected and the implications for the food supply.

West Virginia’s poultry and livestock industries bring in the large majority of the state’s agricultural revenue, with poultry and eggs bringing in approximately $387,884,000 in 2017. Most of that production happens in the state’s eastern panhandle in places including Pendleton County, where Steve Conrad raises turkeys for a regional cooperative.

He said a worker tested positive for the coronavirus last week at the cooperative’s poultry processing facility across the state border in Hinton, Virginia. While Conrad believes the situation at the facility is under control, the potential for spread of the virus at such processing facilities could be substantial.

https://woub.org/2020/04/10/coronavirus-concerns-rise-as-ohio-valley-meatpacking-workers-fall-sick/


792 posted on 04/13/2020 6:45:26 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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The following is the complete April 13, 2020 statement from the Navy.

PEARL HARBOR (NNS) — The Sailor assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam April 9 (local date) died of COVID-related complications on April 13.
The name of the Sailor is being withheld until 24 hours after next-of-kin notification.

The Sailor tested positive for COVID-19 March 30, was removed from the ship and placed in an isolation house on Naval Base Guam with four other USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Sailors. Like other Sailors in isolation, he received medical checks twice daily from Navy medical teams.

At approximately 8:30 a.m., Apr. 9 (local date), the Sailor was found unresponsive during a daily medical check. While Naval Base Guam emergency responders were notified, CPR was administered by fellow Sailors and onsite medical team in the house. The Sailor was transferred to U.S. Naval Hospital Guam where the Sailor was moved to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The Sailor was declared deceased April 13.

https://news.usni.org/2020/04/13/carrier-roosevelt-sailor-dies-from-covid-19-complications


794 posted on 04/13/2020 6:47:00 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: LilFarmer

But they haven’t closed them.


800 posted on 04/13/2020 7:06:59 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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