COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

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Originalman said:
Also wanted to say I worked in a chicken processing and a meat processing plant in college. I can believe without a doubt that folks are getting sick. You work in the plant literally on top of each other.
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5/20/2020 1pm – Today Tyson is confirming that workers in Sherman, Texas have tested positive for COVID-19.

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Grayson County health officials confirmed the first death related to COVID-19, a man in his 50s from Denison. Family members say he worked at Tyson Foods in Sherman , where multiple employees say around 270 people have tested positive for COVID-19.

The company also said it will continue producing less meat than usual, as workers refrain from coming to work during the coronavirus pandemic.

“We have and expect to continue to face slowdowns and temporary idling of production facilities from team member shortages or choices we make to ensure operational safety,” the company said in a statement discussing financial results from the first three months of this year.

The meat processor has shuttered a number of plants in recent weeks as workers fall ill with Covid-19. It’s warned that if the closures continue, America’s food supply will suffer.

“There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed,” Board chairman John Tyson warned in a full-page ad that appeared recently in newspapers across the country.

The Trump administration wants plants to reopen
In an executive order signed last week, the president gave Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue the power to invoke the Defense Production Act to force companies to keep their plants open. The order, however, has not led to a widespread reopening of meat production plants.

In a statement responding to the directive, Smithfield lauded the decision but noted that it is “evaluating next steps to open its currently shuttered facilities and will make announcements when it is ready to resume operations in each location.”

The day after the president signed the order, JBS USA announced it would partially reopen its pork production facility in Worthington, Minnesota — but only to euthanize hogs that won’t be processed because of bottlenecks in the supply chain.

“While our focus is on getting the Worthington facility back to work on behalf of our team members producing food for the nation, we believe we have a responsibility to step up when our producer partners are in need,” Bob Krebs, President of JBS USA Pork, said in a statement. “None of us want to euthanize hogs, but our producers are facing a terrible, unprecedented situation.”

The National Pork Producers Council also praised the order but acknowledged that hogs will still go to waste.

“While getting pork packing plants back online is foundational, the tragic reality is that millions of hogs can’t enter the food supply,” the council said in a statement, adding “we need coordinated partnership between the industry and federal, state and local authorities to euthanize pigs.”

The challenge for Tyson: While meat processing plants have ground to a stop, consumer demand for meat is up.

Tyson reported selling 2.7% more more beef by volume in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2019. Pork sales popped 2% by volume, while chicken sales fell 1.5%, partially because of restaurant closures due to the pandemic.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WGNO) – Acadian crawfish farms are experiencing an outbreak of coronavirus.

About 100 workers have reported testing positive with the virus at three different farms.

Dr. Alex Billeaux with the state health department says the workers have been living in dormitory-style housing, which likely led to the quick spread of the virus.

Billeaux also says the outbreak is under investigation.
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Let's just admit it. These mfs sold us out and now finna ensure they get paid for life even if they don't get reelected in Nov. The next president gone take the fall even though he won't get in office until Jan. The whole time distractions in place. All about money. What did they expect when you put a failed businessman in office
 
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Got damn....there goes my abbott stock.
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No! There is hope .... :myman:

"Superdrug [Chemist] today became the first [UK] high street retailer to start selling a coronavirus antibody test to the public and has sold out in a matter of hours."

"The tests, which are intended to tell someone if they have had the virus in the past, cost £69 and require the user to take blood samples themselves and post them off to a laboratory, where it takes 24 hours to produce a result."

"And the medical giant Abbott, which makes the tests, has insisted that its tests were not intended to be used by people taking their own blood samples."

"Officials last week approved the Abbott test for laboratory use, making it only the second kit of its kind to be given the green-light following a similar kit made by Swiss giant Roche."

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But the Roche test works very well as far as I heard ...

It's sold out anyway..
 
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Ford forced to halt production at two plants after employees test positive for Covid-19 - CNN
New York (CNN Business)Just days after reopening its American assembly plants, Ford temporarily shut down two separate factories because employees tested positive for Covid-19.

One plant in Chicago that builds the Ford Explorer, the Lincoln Aviator and the Ford Interceptor police car stopped operations Tuesday afternoon after two employees tested positive for Covid-19. Then, Ford's plant in Dearborn Michigan that makes its bestselling F-150 pickup, shut down Wednesday.
Both plants, as well as other Ford plants across four Midwest states -- restarted production Monday after suspending production for about two months because of health concerns.
This week's stoppages were expected to be brief -- the Chicago plant was back in operation Wednesday morning, and the Dearborn plant is expected to resume operations later Wednesday night. Still, the temporary shutdowns are a sign of the difficulty of operating factories while complying with enhanced safety measures put in place to deal with the pandemic.
The Chicago assembly plant briefly suspended production a second time Wednesday afternoon, because of a shortage of parts from a supplier, according to Ford. The Ford Chicago plant is expected to resume production Wednesday evening. The disruption of Ford's supply chain was caused when the supplier, Lear (LEA), confirmed one of its employees at a plant in Hammond, Indiana, just over the state line from Chicago, had tested positive for Covid-19.
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"The facility has temporarily stopped production for deep cleaning and disinfection, and we have notified our plant team members, UAW partners and our customer," said Lear in a statement.
Even the partial-day shutdowns at random plants demonstrates how difficult it will be for automakers to resume operations while dealing with the pandemic, said Kristin Dziczek, vice president of industry, labor & economics at the Center for Automotive Research, a Michigan think tank. She said many of the auto plants that restarted operations in Asia have been forced to close, at least temporarily.
"There are three things that have to all come together. You have to have a healthy work force, a healthy supply chain and healthy demand," she said. "It's not just flip a switch and everything is as it was. It's very complicated."
Ford began screening employees' temperatures when it reopened its plants, and it requires medical tests for workers who exhibit symptoms. The two positive test results in Chicago came back on Tuesday, prompting an afternoon shutdown. The end of the day shift and part of the night shift were lost.

"When two employees who returned to work this week tested positive for Covid-19, we immediately notified people known to have been in close contact with the infected individuals and asked them to self-quarantine for 14 days," said Kelli Felker, a spokesperson for Ford. "We also deep cleaned and disinfected the work area, equipment, team area and the path that the team member took."
The same procedure was followed at Dearborn Truck when the positive result came back Wednesday, she said.
Felker said the affected employees worked in a separate building about a mile from the main assembly line at the plant. But because parts from those employees' building are needed at the main assembly line, the entire complex was shut down.
Ford has about 5,800 employees at the Chicago assembly complex. A separate Chicago stamping plant with just more than 1,000 employees remained open. It has 4,400 employees at Dearborn Truck.
Felker said Ford is confident that the infected employees at both plants had the virus before they returned to work because of coronavirus' incubation time.
"Our protocols are in place to help stop the spread of the virus," she said.
The United Auto Workers union, which represents hourly workers at Ford (F), General Motors (GM) and Fiat Chrysler (FCAU), issued a statement about the situation in Chicago: It "continues to aggressively monitor the implementation of health and safety protocols to protect our member, their families and their communities."
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