Well, so much for Livingston

LIVINGSTON, Calif. — A chicken processing plant in central California has been ordered to shut down after it became the site of one of the largest and most severe COVID-19 outbreaks in the state, health officials said.

The order to close the Foster Farms Livingston Facility comes after at least 358 employees have tested positive, and eight employees have died due to the coronavirus, according to a letter obtained from the Merced County Health Department, the Merced Sun-Star reported Thursday.
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Livingston is about 35 miles south of where I came from and Foster Farms is THE major employer in town. Everybody in town either works for Foster Farms or has a family member that does and within a 40 mile radius of that town are hundreds of chicken ranches supplying the processing plant with meat birds and eggs, so this is going to have a serious ripple effect on the economy of the San Joaquin Valley.