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Death, illness reports cause industry to get busy with COVID-19 mitigation measures

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Death, illness reports cause industry to get busy with COVID-19 mitigation measures

Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 on April 7. He worked at the Greeley beef plant for more than 30 years. After Sanchez was diagnosed and hospitalized in March, his family was frustrated by JBS officials being unresponsive to their attempts to report that their loved one might have unknowingly exposed others in the beef plant to the virus — and that maybe JBS might want to do something about it. In his death, the Sanchez family was credited by the Greeley Tribune with breaking open “the...

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