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'I was so afraid to die alone': COVID-19's toll on Mississippi's chicken plant employees

‘I was so afraid to die alone’: COVID-19’s toll on Mississippi’s chicken plant employees
Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, The American South
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A man who took pleasure in cooking for and being surrounded by friends was left to battle COVID-19 alone after contracting the virus at the Koch Foods chicken plant in Forest where he works. He thought he would die alone and gives thanks to God for his recovery, he explains during a Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, interview. When he returned to work at the chicken plant after weeks of being sick, no one would go near him. ....

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COVID-19's toll on more than 1,000 Mississippi's chicken plant employees

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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, The American South
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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. ....

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