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Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants

By Michael Grabell (Pro Publica), Claire Perlman (ProPublica) and Bernice Yeung (ProPublica) | June 15, 2020

Thousands of pages of documents obtained by ProPublica show how quickly public health agencies were overwhelmed by meatpacking cases. One CEO described social distancing as “a nicety that makes sense only for people with laptops.”

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