A government report released Thursday estimates that more than 59,000 workers in the industry became sick and approximately 269 people died.
The report estimated that more than 59,000 workers across the entire meatpacking industry became sick and approximately 269 people died during the pandemic.
A new report released Thursday indicated that the Trump White House wanted to be thanked publicly for keeping meat processing plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Above, former President Donald Trump is pictured in Greenwood, Nebraska, on May 1.
At the time of the order to keep the meatpacking plants open, Trump emphasized the importance of keepingto avoid a possible meat shortage, a motivation that was"baseless," according to Thursday's report. The report from the committee goes on to state that some meatpacking executives were aware of the risks posed to their workers.
"Meatpacking executives were aware of the high risks of coronavirus transmission inside of plants," the report stated, citing the example of a JBS executive who received an April 2020 email from a doctor in a hospital near JBS' Cactus, Texas, facility saying that all COVID-19 patients in the hospital were"either direct employees or family member[s] of your employees.
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