{"id":8021,"date":"2020-07-07T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8021"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:50:58","slug":"update-covid-19-among-workers-in-meat-and-poultry-processing-facilities-%e2%80%95-united-states-april-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/update-covid-19-among-workers-in-meat-and-poultry-processing-facilities-%e2%80%95-united-states-april-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: COVID-19 Among Workers in Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities \u2015 United States, April\u2013May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to a CDC update, during April and May of 2020, 16,233 workers in 239 meat and poultry processing facilities\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">developed confirmed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0COVID-19, with a case fatality of 0.5% (86 deaths). Among cases whose race or ethnicity were reported, 87% are racial or ethnic minorities.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors recommend continued\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">attention to workplace interventions and prevention efforts that are appropriately tailored to the groups most affected by COVID-19, including face masks, physical barriers between workers, and hand hygiene station.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Waltenburg et al. (July 7, 2020). Update: COVID-19 Among Workers in Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities \u2015 United States, April\u2013May 2020. MMWR.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6927e2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6927e2<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a CDC update, during April and May of 2020, 16,233 workers in 239 meat and poultry processing facilities\u00a0developed confirmed\u00a0COVID-19, with a case fatality of 0.5% (86 deaths). Among cases whose race or ethnicity were reported, 87% are racial or ethnic minorities.\u00a0The authors recommend continued\u00a0attention to workplace interventions and prevention efforts that are appropriately&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/update-covid-19-among-workers-in-meat-and-poultry-processing-facilities-%e2%80%95-united-states-april-may-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8022,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}