Covering Covid: Essential

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The workers who produce pork, chicken, and beef in plants around the country have been deemed "essential" by the government and their employers. Now, the factories where they work have become some of the largest clusters for the coronavirus in the country. The workers, many of whom are immigrants, say their bosses have not done enough to protect them.

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0:29.6	Friends from US and Europe.
0:31.8	Good morning.
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0:33.8	It's March 24th, about 10 days after cities around the US
0:37.8	started shutting down because of COVID-19.
0:41.6	Workers are getting furloughed.
0:43.2	Businesses are closing.
0:45.2	And about 500 people in the US have already died.
0:50.1	But Ken Sullivan, the CEO of the world's biggest pork producer,
0:53.8	Smithfield Foods, is on a conference call, telling investors
0:57.8	that everything at the company is fine.
1:00.3	We are operating all our plants at 100%.
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