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Kansas Meatpacking Workers Fear Getting Infected With COVID-19

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President Trump's mandate that all meatpacking plants stay open has made many workers worried that precautions being taken aren't enough to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

As Corinne Boyer (@Corinne_Boyer) of Kansas News Service reports, that's the case in southwest Kansas, which is home to four meatpacking plants in counties with a high rate of COVID-19.

This segment aired on May 7, 2020.

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