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Tag: Lee County

A small storefront has become a Latino grocery store called Tienda Centro reads the sign. Siler City has one of the highest rates of COVID infection in North Carolina
Posted inHealth Inequities

Latinos, the coronavirus and a single ZIP code

by Greg Barnes May 29, 2020January 29, 2021
We see a tent with several people in it who are wearing head-to-toe personal protective equipment, thyr'e talking to someone in a car who is waiting to b tested for COVID-19
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – May 28 – Bars, senators and Cooper; COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increase; NC poet laureate joins information campaign

by Editor May 28, 2020December 10, 2022
we look through a chain link fence into an industrial complex / poultry plantwhere multiple workers have tested positive for COVID-19
Posted inMinority Health

As COVID races through Mountaire Farms poultry plant, workers deemed vital feel dispensable

by Victoria Bouloubasis May 28, 2020May 29, 2020
shows trend lines for COVID-like illnesses in the emergency departments higher than in prior years, but decreasing overall
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – May 5 – Cooper eases restrictions as of Friday, reporting on nursing home, meat processor outbreaks

by Editor May 5, 2020November 25, 2022
The Smithfield Food's hog-processing plant in Tar Heel appeared to be operating as usual on Tuesday, April 28, 2019. Photo credit Greg Barnes
Posted inInfectious Disease

Smithfield’s largest slaughterhouse struggling to contain virus

by Greg Barnes May 1, 2020April 30, 2020
The Smithfield Foods processing plant in Tar Heel employs up to 5,000 workers and slaughters 30,000 to 35,000 hogs a day: Photo credit: Melissa Sue Garrets, The Fayetteville Observer
Posted inInfectious Disease

Two more processing plants identified as having coronavirus outbreaks

by Greg Barnes April 24, 2020April 9, 2021

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