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April 23, 2020

Tyson Foods Idles Iowa Pork Plant as Coronavirus Spreads in Meatpacking Factories
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In Nebraska, meatpacking communities in Hall, Dawson and Dakota counties
are seeing coronavirus cases at a rate 15 times higher than the rest of
the state and over five times higher than the national average.

In Iowa, Tyson Foods on Wednesday shut down its pork plant in the city
of Waterloo - the company's largest pork plant in the nation - after at
least 90% of coronavirus cases in Black Hawk County were traced back to
Tyson plant workers.


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