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Ky. health chief recounts emotional toll of fighting COVID
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JACK BRAMMER, Lexington-Herald Leader
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Dr. Steven Stack, Kentucky Department of Public Health commissioner, speaks during an interview in his office in Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Stack studied the horrific projections for the cornavirus pandemic. He had been Kentucky’s public health commissioner for about a month in March 2020, and he knew “the sheer enormity” of the task at hand. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)Ryan C. Hermens/AP
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) About 75,000 to 90,000 people in Kentucky were expected to die. University of Kentucky’s Kroger Field only seats 61,000.
Heading into this summer, Kraft Heinz knew it had a problem with its mayonnaise line.
Mayonnaise sales are historically higher in warmer months as dishes that include mayonnaise, like deviled eggs and macaroni salads, are more popular.
Kraft Heinz s mayonnaise packaging supplier was hit hard by the pandemic, which signaled a potential bottle shortage, at exactly the time production needed to ramp up.
The manufacturer s Ops Center was put to the test in figuring out the bottle problem. As we knew how critical that category was, we were already working on contingent suppliers in the case of a disruption, Thiago Bastos, head of U.S. operations in enhancers, specialty and away-from-home at Kraft Heinz, wrote in an email.