Top coronavirus hotspot in the U.S. may not be where you think
Karen Townsend Posted at 12:31 pm on April 19, 2020
The country’s top coronavirus hotspot is in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Smithfield Foods plant, as of last Wednesday, now tops both Chicago’s Cook County Jail and the USS Theodore Roosevelt because of the number of localized cases. 644 people with connections to the plant were infected, including 518 employees, as of Wednesday.
Nine days ago I wrote about this pork processing plant in South Dakota. At that time, 80 employees had tested positive for the virus, while the employees’ union said that 120 were confirmed to have the coronavirus. In response, the plant, which employs 3700 people, planned to shut down for three days. During that time, the plan included deep cleaning and sanitizing the processing plant and also installing plexiglass to enhance social distancing practices.
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