Meat processors ready for COVID-19 vaccine, but workers may not be
By Kate Gibson
Coronavirus deaths near 400,000 in U.S.
The COVID-19 vaccine can't come soon enough for U.S. meatpacking plants, an industry plagued by outbreaks, labor shortages and absenteeism due to the deadly virus. Hotbeds for COVID-19 outbreaks, meat and poultry processing facilities face major challenges in getting their hundreds of thousands of employees immunized.
"The resolution to this is a vaccine, and now we have it," Sanderson Farms CEO Joe Sanderson told analysts in a recent earnings call, adding, "It's going to take time. We don't know how many people are going to take it. I think that is a question."