How the meatpacking industry skirted COVID safety regulations with the help of the White House

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The nation's meatpacking companies skirted COVID safety regulations. And they did it with the White House's help, according to a little known Congressional report. So how’d they get away with it? Michael Grabell and Debbie Berkowitz join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:24.1	American meat-packing plants were terrible hot spots
0:27.0	in the earliest months of the COVID pandemic.
0:29.6	Almost 60,000 workers at the nation's
0:31.7	five largest meat-packing companies
0:33.5	were infected by the coronavirus.
0:36.0	And yet, for months, meat-packing corporations
0:39.1	resisted adding mitigation measures to their plants.
0:42.3	They lobbied to force employees to continue working,
0:45.3	even as outbreaks that began in their plants
0:47.8	spread into local communities.
0:50.2	How was that allowed to happen?
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