One Meat Plant. One Thousand Infections.

The Daily

• Episode: One Meat Plant. One Thousand Infections.
• Website: The Daily
• Feed URL: http://rss.art19.com/the-daily
• Duration: 00:29:55
• Published: 2020-05-04 11:54

One of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the United States has been inside the Smithfield pork factory in Sioux Falls, S.D. Today, we speak with a worker at the plant, a refugee who survived civil war and malaria only to find her life and livelihood threatened anew. Guests: Caitlin Dickerson, who covers immigration for The New York Times, spoke with Achut Deng, a Sudanese refugee who works at Smithfield. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

• Refugees from around the world worked at the Smithfield pork factory. Now they face mounting illness and the sudden loss of their jobs.