The United States Centers for Disease Control reports that to the end of May, 91 workers at meat-packing plants have died of COFID-19 and more than 17,000 have been infected.
The report drew from surveillance data from health departments across 23 states.
Among cases where demographic data was recorded, 87 percent of cases occurred among racial and ethnic minority workers.
The CDC said that 12 percent of the cases were asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. However, not all facilities performed widespread coronavirus testing. Because of this, there may have been many more cases that went unreported.
