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Tyson Foods Idles Iowa Pork Plant as Coronavirus Spreads in Meatpacking Factories

HeadlineApr 23, 2020

In Nebraska, meatpacking communities in Hall, Dawson and Dakota counties are seeing coronavirus cases at a rate 15 times higher than the rest of the state and over five times higher than the national average.

In Iowa, Tyson Foods on Wednesday shut down its pork plant in the city of Waterloo — the company’s largest pork plant in the nation — after at least 90% of coronavirus cases in Black Hawk County were traced back to Tyson plant workers.

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