If you're a meat eater, it might be prudent to buy some.... quickly. Or Canned..

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Meat Processing Plants Suspend Operations After Workers Fall Ill
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/07/828873225/meat-processing-plants-suspend-operations-after-workers-fall-ill

Tyson Foods says it has suspended operations at its pork plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, pictured in February 2013, after more than two dozen workers got sick with COVID-19.
Ryan J. Foley/AP

Several meat processing plants around the U.S. are sitting idle this week because workers have been infected with the coronavirus. Tyson Foods, one of the country's biggest meat processors, says it suspended operations at its pork plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, after more than two dozen workers got sick with COVID-19. National Beef Packing stopped slaughtering cattle at another Iowa plant, and JBS USA shut down work at a beef plant in Pennsylvania.

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Three Meat Plants Shut in Iowa and Pennsylvania as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/06/us/06reuters-health-coronavirus-usa-meat.html

"Reduced meat output from the shutdowns threatens to tighten supplies of certain products at a time when demand is rising at grocery stores as the country battles COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus."
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Three Meat Plants Shut in Iowa and Pennsylvania as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/06/us/06reuters-health-coronavirus-usa-meat.html

"Hundreds of workers are staying home each day from their jobs at the JBS meat packing plant in Greeley, after reports of positive tests for coronavirus on some employees."

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More Than 800 Greeley Meat Packing Plant Workers Call Off as Coronavirus is Confirmed Among Employees
https://www.perishablenews.com/meatpoultry/more-than-800-greeley-meat-packing-plant-workers-call-off-as-coronavirus-is-confirmed-among-employees/
"About 500 people called off in the morning and another 400 did not go to work in the evening, said Kim Cordova, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7."

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Sioux Falls meat-packing plant named COVID-19 'cluster'
https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/south-dakota-meatpacking-plant-closes-for-3-days-as-one-of-the-nations-top-hotspots-for-covid-19/

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Sioux Falls, South Dakota meatpacking plant quickly becoming one of the top hotspots for COVID-19 in the country is closing for three days, according to a statement from Smithfield Foods.

The company will stop operations on a large section of the plant on Saturday, and remain closed on Sunday and Monday, while essential employees clean the plant.

“Smithfield Foods is taking the utmost precautions and actions to ensure the health and wellbeing of our employees – with an even increased emphasis on our critical role in the ongoing supply of food to American families,” Smithfield CEO Kenneth M. Sullivan said in a statement. “Our Sioux Falls plant supplies nearly 130 million servings of food per week, or about 18 million servings per day, to our country. Our more than 40,000 U.S. team members, thousands of American family farmers and our many other supply chain partners are a crucial part of our nation’s response to COVID-19.”

On Wednesday, the South Dakota Department of Health confirmed more than 80 employees at Smithfield Foods have tested positive for COVID-19.