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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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5:05 pm UTC Dec. 10, 2020
In mid-April, an employee at one of the chicken processing plants in Mississippi’s poultry capital of Scott County noticed two coworkers showed up sick, one complaining about a headache and shortness of breath.
At that point about one month after Mississippi announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the country began to make headlines his company had not yet taken precautions against the pandemic, said the worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing his job.
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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, The American South
Published
11:07 am UTC Dec. 14, 2020
In mid-April, an employee at one of the chicken processing plants in Mississippi’s poultry capital of Scott County noticed two coworkers showed up sick, one complaining about a headache and shortness of breath.
At that point about one month after Mississippi announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the country began to make headlines his company had not yet taken precautions against the pandemic, said the worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing his job.