{"id":8779,"date":"2020-08-06T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:37:36","slug":"covid-19-outbreak-among-employees-at-a-meat-processing-facility-south-dakota-march-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/covid-19-outbreak-among-employees-at-a-meat-processing-facility-south-dakota-march-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Outbreak Among Employees at a Meat Processing Facility \u2014 South Dakota, March\u2013April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Steinberg<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. reported an outbreak\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mployees at a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">m<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">eat\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">p<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rocessing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">acility<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in South Dakota during March 16\u2013April 25, 2020. A total of 929 (2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%) employees and 210 (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%) of their contacts were diagnosed with COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wo<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0employees died. The highest attack rates occurred among employees who worked &lt;6 feet from one another on the production line.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Steinberg et al. (Aug 7, 2020). COVID-19 Outbreak Among Employees at a Meat Processing Facility \u2014 South Dakota, March\u2013April 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6931a2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6931a2<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>Steinberg\u00a0et al. reported an outbreak\u00a0of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0among\u00a0employees at a\u00a0meat\u00a0processing\u00a0facility\u00a0in South Dakota during March 16\u2013April 25, 2020. A total of 929 (26%) employees and 210 (9%) of their contacts were diagnosed with COVID-19.\u00a0Two\u00a0employees died. The highest attack rates occurred among employees who worked &lt;6 feet from one another on the production line.\u00a0\u00a0 Steinberg et al. (Aug 7, 2020)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/covid-19-outbreak-among-employees-at-a-meat-processing-facility-south-dakota-march-april-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-8779","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\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8780,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}