The company vowed to release data from its other plants in response to the report, as well.
Until clarification is received, we will not be releasing Tyson information until further notice, or until we hear otherwise that we may do so."īut after The Post story was published, Tyson and the agency revealed the Madison figures. "We had been awaiting clarification on these statements from Governor Ricketts. "We are disappointed to announce that our office was just notified of this news story," the department's website said last week. The Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department, which covers the area where several Tyson plants are located, said it hoped to release updated data last week before Ricketts' decision Transparency and honesty builds trust, ensures safety and keeps the food system functioning."
"Workers, communities and companies all deserve this information so that we can make these essential workers as safe as possible. This is a wrong decision at the wrong time," union chief Mark Lauritsen said in a statement. "Governor Ricketts is taking steps to conceal testing results from the communities and workers that need it the most. The decision sparked anger among members of the United Food and Commercial Workers, the union which represents many of the workers. "We have had people who are not telling the truth with regard to their place of employment." "We do have aggregate data that we are tracking at the state, but that's the only way we're going to present it - as the aggregate," he said. Rickets announced last week that more than 1,000 workers had tested positive but said the data from individual plants would not be released. Tyson disclosed 212 positive tests at its plant in Madison, Neb., after the outlet's report was published. "Since this is an ever-changing situation we cannot provide specific numbers," a spokesperson for Tyson told The Post. Company officials have largely refused to share the data due to privacy concerns. Ricketts argued that the data was unreliable, because some people have not been forthright about their place of work and suggested that local officials not release the numbers unless they obtain permission from the companies.
Four of those countries are located in Nebraska. A third of the 30 counties with the most infections per capita have large meatpacking plants. Meatpacking plants have seen some of the worst outbreaks in the country. "If the 'essential' workers are being treated fairly and protected at meatpacking plants, why aren't we allowed to know the numbers?" Vy Mai, who lost her grandfather to the coronavirus after her uncle and aunt were exposed at the Smithfield plant, questioned the secrecy in an interview with The Post. With the companies not sharing the numbers either, the move left plant workers and their families unaware of what was happening at their worksites. Pete Ricketts, a Republican, announced last week that state health officials would stop publishing data about the individual plants. Then the updates abruptly stopped, The Washington Post reported. Through the first week of May, Nebraska officials reported 96 infections at a Tyson plant in Madison, 123 at a Smithfield plant in Crete and 237 at a JBS plant in Grand Island. Nebraska officials stopped releasing data on coronavirus infections at meatpacking plants as cases spiked at multiple facilities run by companies like Tyson and Smithfield.
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