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KBBG temporarily off the air to reassess station's future

Executive Director Corey Holmes recognizes people are concerned the station has been off the air since November but equated the break to halftime at a football game. ....

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How the History of Waterloo, Iowa, Explains How Meatpacking Plants Became Hotbeds of COVID-19


How the History of Waterloo, Iowa, Explains How Meatpacking Plants Became Hotbeds of COVID-19
ProPublica
12/21/2020
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This spring, Waterloo, Iowa, became the site of one of the largest if not the largest COVID-19 workplace outbreaks in the United States. At the sprawling Tyson Foods pork plant on the eastern edge of town, at least 1,500 of the 2,800 workers have been infected with the virus, according to the county sheriff, who also heads the emergency management commission. Eight of those workers died, he said, and based on contact tracing, the cases tied to Tyson grow to 2,500 to 3,000. Waterloo was, in many ways, primed for an outbreak, and the reason lies in its history, which reflects the meatpacking industry’s dramatic transformation over the past half century. 1891 ....

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