An investigation by the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica found that despite years of warnings about the possibility of a pandemic, meatpackers didn’t heed guidance on how to prepare.
The report says infectious disease experts and emergency planners had modeled what might happen with the arrival of a highly contagious virus, including how an outbreak might create food shortages and plant closures.
And those experts repeatedly urged companies and government agencies to prepare.
“It was an unmitigated disaster for food processors, and it didn’t have to be,”…
