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Rural Counties with Meatpacking Plants have Higher COVID-19 Infection Rates

The Daily Yonder and the Food & Environment Reporting Network did an analysis showing that meatpacking counties have some of the highest infection rates in the United States—five times higher on average than the rest of rural America. Of the counties with Covid-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants, 52% are rural.

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