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Memphis Commercial Appeal
Catherine Bacon starts her shift at 5 a.m. on the assembly line for a catfish processor in rural Mississippi, a line of work that hasn’t paused during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s a job Bacon, 53, and her coworkers at Consolidated Catfish Producers in Isola have fulfilled despite COVID-19 upending day-to-day life, ensuring grocers and restaurants continue to get their supply of catfish products.
“When everything shut down, we still had to come to work every day,” she said. “We came to work like six days a week. We didn’t let up any.”
Bacon received her first Moderna vaccine shot in late March. She said “it felt good that it’s almost over” the worry of catching COVID-19 and not being able to spend time with her three grandchildren have made the past year a trying one.