NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO—From apple packing houses in Washington state, to farm workers in Florida, and a California county known as “the world’s salad bowl,” outbreaks of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, are emerging at U.S. fruit and vegetable farms and packing plants.
A rising number of sick farm and packing house workers comes after thousands of meat plant employees contracted the virus and could lead to more labor shortages and a fresh wave of disruptions to U.S. food production.
