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When workers at an Agri Star meatpacking plant in Iowa were diagnosed with covid-19 in March, the company said it had taken steps to contain the virus. Then dozens of people in the town were diagnosed. The state wouldn’t say where the outbreak was coming from. Genetic science helped expose it.
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