Thread by @TheTinaVasquez, This morning I'm wrapping up an interview with a doctor about the [...]

This morning I'm wrapping up an interview with a doctor about the growing number of COVID cases among Latinx poultry processing plant workers here in NC. I'm reading about workers across the country who have died. These are people like Celso Mendoza in MS: https://amp.clarionledger.com/amp/3104375001?__twitter_impression=true

Mississippi poultry worker who died of COVID-19 pushed for better pay, conditions

Celso Mendoza migrated from Mexico to work at a chicken plant in Forest for $6 an hour. He died at 59. He pushed for better pay, conditions.

https://amp.clarionledger.com/amp/3104375001?__twitter_impression=true

And Byakubire Mkogabwe in NC: https://triad-city-beat.com/worker-tyson-foods-wilkesboro-chicken-processing-plant-died/

A worker at Tyson Foods' Wilkesboro chicken-processing plant has died | The NC Triad's altweekly

As concerns mount over the spread of COVID-19 mount at Tyson Foods’ Wilkesboro, Triad City Beat has confirmed that a worker there has died.

https://triad-city-beat.com/worker-tyson-foods-wilkesboro-chicken-processing-plant-died/

And Annie Grant in Georgia: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/coronavirus-chicken-meat-processing-plants-immigrants.html

Poultry Worker’s Death Highlights Spread of Coronavirus in Meat Plants

Some employees are coming in sick, and one woman died after being ordered back to work. “Our work conditions are out of control,” a longtime Tyson employee said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/coronavirus-chicken-meat-processing-plants-immigrants.html

These workers are treated both as "essential and dispensable." https://www.ourprism.org/1941906

'Essential and dispensable' workers: Q&A with El Vínculo Hispano’s Ilana Dubester

For 25 years, Ilana Dubester’s North Carolina organization El Vínculo Hispano has served rural Latinx communities...

https://www.ourprism.org/1941906

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