Smithfield Foods’ meat processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has become the largest coronavirus hotbed in the United States with about 735 associate cases—while Gov. Kristi Noem has yet to issue a stay-at-home order
Smithfield Foods’ meat processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has become the largest coronavirus hotbed in the United States with about 735 associate cases, while Gov. Kristi Noem has yet to issue a stay-at-home order.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesNearly 600 employees and 135 close contacts of now-closed the pork processing plant have tested positive for coronavirus, according to, making it the largest coronavirus hotspot in the United States, surpassing the U.S.S.
Smithfield Foods employee Augustin Rodriguez, 64, became the first coronavirus fatality from the plant’s outbreak when he died Tuesday morning, according to the , which reported that Rodriguez continued working at the plant after he began to have symptoms of COVID-19; he was hospitalized on April 4.
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