From the ProMED Digest, Vol 95, Issue 72:<\/p>\n
Date: Wed 20 May 2020 Health authorities are investigating 2 separate COVID-19 outbreaks at Ohio food plants, including Hearthside Food Solutions in McComb.<\/p>\n The Ohio Capital Journal cited a Tuesday [19 May 2020] morning health alert regarding the Hancock County food plant that manufactures brand-name cookies and crackers.<\/p>\n Hancock Public Health declined to provide the Ohio Capital Journal any information regarding the scale and timing of the outbreak.<\/p>\n “We are currently working with the company to prevent further spread in the community,” Chad Masters, director of health promotion and planning for HCPH, told the news outlet.<\/p>\n The Clark County Combined Health District has identified 20 cases of Nationally, the food industry has proven especially vulnerable to the virus’s spread, according to a database from the Food and Environment Reporting Network, updated 19 May [2020]. At least 16 485 workers (14 From the ProMED Digest, Vol 95, Issue 72: Date: Wed 20 May 2020 Source: The Courier [edited] The Courier Health authorities are investigating 2 separate COVID-19 outbreaks at Ohio food plants, including Hearthside Food Solutions in McComb. The Ohio Capital Journal cited a Tuesday [19 May 2020] morning health alert regarding the Hancock County food … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2148,2520],"tags":[2482,2605,651,2603,2604,2602],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4059","6":"format-standard","7":"category-obituaries","8":"category-pandemic","9":"post_tag-covid-19","10":"post_tag-dole-food-company","11":"post_tag-farmers","12":"post_tag-food-processors","13":"post_tag-food-solutions","14":"post_tag-meatpackers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSource: The Courier [edited]
\nThe Courier<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCOVID-19 associated with Dole Food Company’s Springfield salad plant, a department spokeswoman told the Ohio Capital Journal Tuesday [19 May 2020]. Of the 20, 12 are Dole employees and 8 are contacts of employees. The 1st case was detected on 22 Apr [2020].<\/p>\n
\n839 meatpackers, 1074 food processors, and 572 farmers) have tested positive. At least 66 have died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"