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Life After Outbreak; Perry Adjusts To “New Normal”
Community members in Perry are adjusting to a new normal nearly a month after 730 employees at their local Tyson plant tested positive for COVID-19. Appointments are required at the local barbershop, garages aren’t being used for 3D printing face shields anymore and seniors at Perry High School have an addition to their graduation attire.…
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Activists Battle Nebraska’s COVID Secrecy On Packing Plants
Iowa’s neighbors to the west are urging Nebraska meatpacking plants to be more transparent with positive COVID-19 cases and for better treatment to workers that are deemed essential. The fight has implications for Iowa; a massive outbreak at the Dakota City, Nebraska Tyson plant, the severity of which was kept from the public for weeks,…
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Advice From An Iowa Nursing Student Sick With COVID-19
Education is coming to life in the form of COVID-19 for one Iowa nursing student. Knowing she was already saddled with a compromised immune system, after a cough turned into a fever last month she feared the worst. On April 18 she was tested for COVID-19 and on April 21, her fears were confirmed: she…
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Iowans Turn To Facebook Groups For COVID Info Amid Transparency Issues
Whether it’s advocating for essential workers, breaking news or general updates, the combination of tight-lipped meatpacking companies and public health departments are forcing community members in Perry and Waterloo to find answers to their questions on newly formed Facebook groups. Groups reviewed by Iowa Starting Line range from a few hundred members to over 13,000.…
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Iowans Turn To Facebook Groups For COVID Info Amid Transparency Issues
Whether it’s advocating for essential workers, breaking news or general updates, the combination of tight-lipped meatpacking companies and public health departments are forcing community members in Perry and Waterloo to find answers to their questions on newly formed Facebook groups. Groups reviewed by Iowa Starting Line range from a few hundred members to over 13,000.…
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Iowans Turn To Facebook Groups For COVID Info Amid Transparency Issues
Whether it’s advocating for essential workers, breaking news or general updates, the combination of tight-lipped meatpacking companies and public health departments are forcing community members in Perry and Waterloo to find answers to their questions on newly formed Facebook groups. Groups reviewed by Iowa Starting Line range from a few hundred members to over 13,000.…
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Anxiety For Workers And Families As Packing Plant Work Resumes
The human element is getting lost among the testing and unemployment data of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Zarate and her family are getting the full experience. Zarate is a senior at Perry High School with parents recovering from COVID-19. Her father is almost 60 years old and works at the Tyson plant in Perry, where…
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Decisions On Iowa County Fairs Loom Amidst Pandemic
Instead of spending the month of May finalizing exhibitors and event schedules, county fair organizers are making decisions about whether to punt their 2020 fair to 2021. Last week, the Wapello County Fair Board in southeast Iowa announced it will be postponing its fair for the first time since World War II. The decision was…
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Perry Community Reacts To Tyson Outbreak Numbers
Answers are creating more questions for the Perry community. Data released on Tuesday by the Iowa Department of Public Health confirmed 730 positive COVID-19 tests at the local Tyson meatpacking plant, 58 percent of the tested employees. The news of the positive COVID-19 tests confirmed what many in the Perry community had come to already…
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58% Of Tyson Employees At Perry Plant Test Positive
More than 700 workers at the Tyson meatpacking plant in Perry have tested positive for COVID-19, according to data released today by the Iowa Department of Public Health. During Gov. Kim Reynolds’ daily press conference, the state released testing data for five meatpacking plants in Iowa. At the Tyson plant in Perry, 730 of the…
