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Covid at Meat Plants

A federal class action claims Central Valley Meat Co. hid an April outbreak at its meat-processing plant in Hanford, Calif., “while actively pressuring sick employees to report to work, infecting others,” so that by early May its “single facility internally reported at least 161 cases of the county’s reported 158 cases … more than100% of the total reported cases in the entire county.”

SACRAMENTO — A federal class action claims Central Valley Meat Co. hid an April outbreak at its meat-processing plant in Hanford, Calif., “while actively pressuring sick employees to report to work, infecting others,” so that by early May its “single facility internally reported at least 161 cases of the county’s reported 158 cases … more than100% of the total reported cases in the entire county.”

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