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Tyson Meals, one of the first employers in the United States to require employees to get COVID vaccines, is moving to ease the mask requirements for its employees because the number of coronavirus cases in the United States has dropped.
Workers at “some services” who have been fully vaccinated might start taking off their masks at work on Tuesday. In doing so, it joined businesses like Walmart and states like New York that have tried to ease rules in the hope of setting a new standard in the absence of new national rules.
A memo from the company’s senior vice president of health and safety says that because of the company’s vaccinated employees, the rate of COVID-19 infections has dropped and the rate of serious illnesses has been very low at Tyson.
“And in the last few weeks, the number of active cases at Tyson has dropped a lot,” he said.
A spokesman for Tyson said the company has had “productive and ongoing talks” with union representatives about the new policy.
People work for Tyson in more than a dozen states. They are more likely to get the virus because they work long hours in small places. The company was also criticised early in the pandemic for not doing enough to protect its employees from the coronavirus, which killed more than 100 of its employees.
Slaughterhouses became hot spots for the coronavirus as it spread, which could have had a big impact on meat production. In April 2020, President Trump said that the slaughtering and processing of beef, chicken, and pork was “essential infrastructure.” This meant that the farms could stay open even if their workers were dying. Business people, led by Tyson, pushed for the order for a while.
Some Tyson workers in Amarillo, Texas, were wearing masks that had been “soaked up” by dust, according to a report from Congress. At a pork plant in Waterloo, Iowa, a lot of people got sick, and three people died. Native officers, including the county sheriff, said the company at first didn’t agree to close down the plant in the spring of 2020.
People at Tyson say they have spent more than $810 million to protect against the coronavirus as well as hire new on-site medical companies. It did plant-wide coronavirus tests and hired its first chief medical officer.
In August, the company made it a requirement for all of its packing houses and poultry plants to get vaccines. Most of these plants are in the South and Midwest, where resistance to the vaccines has been high. A lot of people at work were vaccinated by November.
Tyson says that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna photos or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson shot is what it takes to be fully vaccinated. The company has held more than 100 clinics where employees can get booster shots, and it still “strongly encourages” them.
The number of coronavirus cases across the country has dropped by about 80% since January, when it was at its highest. The national average of 155,000 cases per day is about the same as it was in late December.
Mr. Brower said that Tyson’s easing of its mask rules is based on local and other relevant laws, as well as federal laws that require the use of masks at certain services, depending on the transmission charge. Employees will be told quickly which crops and places of work can be affected by the change. Tyson plans to do this.
Tips for social distance and testing are also being looked at and may need to be changed.
