Michael Grabell ProPublica
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Michael Grabell ProPublica

A ProPublica investigation has found that for more than a dozen years, critical businesses like meatpackers have been warned that a pandemic was coming. With eerie prescience, infectious disease experts and emergency planners had modeled scenarios in which a highly contagious virus would cause rampant absenteeism at processing plants, leading to food shortages and potential closures.

ProPublica obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. Here’s what they show.