{"id":39403,"date":"2020-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/california-chicken-plant-closes-after-8-employees-die-from-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:10:10","slug":"california-chicken-plant-closes-after-8-employees-die-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/california-chicken-plant-closes-after-8-employees-die-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"California Chicken Plant Closes After 8 Employees Die From COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Along with deep cleaning of the plant, all 1,400 people at the facility will be tested for COVID-19<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Sept. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Livingston, California, where eight workers died of COVID-19 and 392 tested positive will be closed for a week of cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>Following an order from county public health officials, the plant is scheduled to close from the evening of Sept. 1 to the evening of Sept. 7. Along with deep cleaning of the plant, all 1,400 people at the facility will be tested for COVID-19, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>If necessary, the plant closure will be extended, according to a statement from Foster Farms.<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it would take additional measures ordered by county health officials. &#8220;We further agree with the Merced Public Health Department that opportunities exist to enhance social distancing, add to professional health care staffing that will oversee COVID-19 programs, and improve COVID-19 related employee communication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chicken-plant-foster-farms-california-covid-19-deaths-close-week\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with deep cleaning of the plant, all 1,400 people at the facility will be tested for COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}