212 workers test positive for coronavirus after mass testing at Tyson pork plant in Madison

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Erin Duffy

Increased testing at the Tyson Foods pork plant in Madison, Nebraska, that temporarily shut down last week to deep clean revealed 212 workers had COVID-19.

More than 1,400 workers, contractors and vendors at the plant, south of Norfolk, were tested by either Tyson or local healthcare providers at the beginning of May. That means about 14.5% of the entire workforce there tested positive, according to the results released jointly by Tyson and the Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department.

Seventy-four people had no symptoms.

As of Tuesday, 298 cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in the Elkhorn Logan Valley health district, which includes Madison, Burt, Cuming and Stanton Counties in northeast Nebraska. Most of the cases — 265 — involve Madison County residents.



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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Only 212?

Knowing a bit about Madison,my guess is,most of the Town is now infected. As well as the surrounding Farm Community. Same for Fremont and Columbus.

[Roy Rolling]

2. "Pork Plant"

The euphemisms are numerous: “meat packer” “beef processor” “Chicken processing” They are brave enough to kill animals for food and humans at work, but too cowardly to call their operations slaughterhouses?

Seriously, we expect companies that kill, chop, and grind animals with little concern for suffering, to have concern for the human animals who are their employees?

Not gonna happen, anymore than they can make a slaughterhouse hygienic. It’s a living hell, there.

[IronLionZion]

4. Meat industry has no sense of irony

[beachbumbob]

3. So how many been sick and had symptoms?