The Workers Who Supply the World’s Food Are Starting to Get Sick

  • Early positive cases raise alarms over production disruptions
  • ‘I would expect some of us are going to get the virus’
Eggs are collected from a barn of Lohmann Brown chickens at a farm in Illinois, U.S.Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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Poultry giant Sanderson Farms Inc. on Monday reported the first case of a worker at a major U.S. meat producer testing positive for coronavirus. The employee and six more from the McComb, Mississippi, plant were sent home to self-quarantine, with pay, but operations continued as normal.