Meat Processing Plants Suspend Operations After Workers Fall Ill

By Dan Charles

Published April 7, 2020 at 11:41 AM MDT

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Several processing plants in the U.S. are sitting idle this week because workers are sick with the coronavirus. Other facilities are still operating, but fewer workers are showing up.

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Dan Charles is NPR's food and agriculture correspondent.

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