South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Wants To Reopen Smithfield Foods Plant ‘In A Matter Of Days’
South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem said in a Monday morning Fox News interview that she wants to re-open Smithfield Foods’ Sioux Falls processing plant in a “matter of days,” despite the increasing number of plant closures around the country after the company’s Sioux Falls location became the largest coronavirus hotbed in the United States.
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“I think in a matter of days it could be open,” said Noem of the Sioux Fall plant in the Monday interview with Fox News’ Ed Henry.
In a 15-page Thursday memo, the CDC recommended that Smithfield Foods improve upon social distancing, hygiene, PPE and more in order to reopen after an inspection of the Sioux Falls plant.
