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May 20, 2020

Trump Claims Meat Plants Are Safe Despite Surging Coronavirus Cases
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The state of Nebraska has announced workers in meatpacking factories
account for about one-quarter of the state's confirmed coronavirus
cases. Two thousand six hundred meatpackers have tested positive in
Nebraska; eight have died. Meanwhile, President Trump claimed on Tuesday
that meatpacking plants are "cleaner than they've ever been." The
majority of Nebraska's meatpackers are immigrants.


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