Meat Plant Bosses Bet Money on How Many Workers Would Get COVID—as Dozens Were Hospitalized: Suit

As the coronavirus swept through a pork processing plant in Iowa, managers were callously indifferent—not only keeping the facility open despite state demands for its closure, but organizing a cash buy-in betting pool on how many employees would fall ill, according to a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in Iowa federal court, argues that more than 1,000 employees at the Tyson Foods facility in Waterloo eventually contracted the virus, five of whom…