Juliet Eilperin

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RT @RobSandIA: https://t.co/aJVmvfeydR In July, state auditor Rob Sand said Iowa’s system for reporting test results was rife with “illega… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @drdavidmichaels: When Iowa OSHA received a complaint of sick workers at a beef plant, it did what @OSHA_DOL does too often now-ask the… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cfishman: 5/ This is a new genre of journalism: investigative feature writing. A story of how a big company in a small town worked wit… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MikeMadden: Somewhat unusual rationale for granting anonymity to a source in this piece: https://t.co/dI2EsQDjAl https://t.co/G2Zfn9eDQA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rcjonesphoto: I photographed this story for @washingtonpost about how the coronavirus' genetic code proved an outbreak happened at a me… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dino_grandoni: An extremely 2020 photo choice in today’s @washingtonpost for a story I co-wrote w/ @faizsays & @brady_dennis https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

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14/ And like all ambitious projects, we had a lot of help on this one. @joemfox did the graphics, @audrey_valbuena did the design, @TrishWbelli edited the story, @olivierclaurent edited the photos, @danrindl edited the graphics and @Julie_Vit worked her magic to launch it. TY! — PolitiTweet.org

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13/ And then there's this one, which @rcjonesphoto shot after getting up early in the morning to document workers heading into Agri Star https://t.co/WDpzV7074y — PolitiTweet.org

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12/ @rcjonesphoto took the incredible photos displayed in our story, like this one. It gives a sense of a community that has Orthodox Jews, immigrants from Central America and Somalia, and descendants of European farmers who settled the town -- all living in the same place. https://t.co/Hxu5NFUZUh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @seungminkim: McConnell to @burgessev and team on the Hill: “Did you see my tweet? That pretty well sums it up." (I don't think I hav… — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ And I would urge everyone to check out two films @luisarguetaa has made about Postville - abUSed and The U-Turn. They are powerful, and capture the complexity of a place that bills itself as "America's Hometown." https://t.co/fAbly7eHXN — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ Also, we translated the story into Spanish, so residents in Postville and elsewhere can read it even if they're not fluent in English. Here's the Spanish version: https://t.co/0b5phcC7Hu — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ The positivity rate in Allamakee County, where Postville is located, is almost as high as Manhattan's. And infections are creeping back up in Allamakee County. With 27 new daily cases per 100,000 residents, Iowa has one of the highest infection rates in the country. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ Agri Star said it received a lab report from the state that put the number of workers with covid-19 antibodies at 155, which is even higher that the numbers recorded by the state. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ 'That’s a lot of people who were positive for antibodies,' said Gigi Gronvall, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University who is an expert on serology tests. The figures suggest 'they had an outbreak and it went on for some time.' — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ When the state finally tested 463 workers in May, seven weeks after the first infections, they never released the results. But @washingtonpost got them from Agri Star: 12 active cases of covid-19 and at least 106 people with antibodies, which are evidence of past infection. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) never declared an outbreak at the plant, since the state set the threshold at 10 percent of the plant's 575-person workforce being sick at once. CDC’s recommended definition for an outbreak is two or more linked cases of a disease. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ Workers like Magdalena Toj and Rudy Perez fell ill in April and were out of work for weeks, without sick leave. Toj had tried to get a mask at work in March and feared the virus: 'They’re going to get us sick,' Toj would often say, 'and they don’t even know it.' https://t.co/m5Uo0Wjt78 — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ Kenny found 27 cases, mostly from Postville and the surrounding area, shared a distinctive mutation that has not been seen anywhere else. The sub-strain has infected patients in at least 15 cities across three state as well as at least one person in Ecuador. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ Paraic Kenny, a tumor geneticist turned disease detective at @gundersenhealth sequenced covid-19 samples from Postville residents and identified a sub-strain that showed how the virus had spread among workers at Agri Star Meat and Poultry. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ This spring, as coronavirus spread through a small Iowa town this spring and workers at a meatpacking plant fell ill, state officials stayed silent. But a geneticist cracked the code. W/ @sarahkaplan48 @desmondbutler @chriscmooney and @luivelarde https://t.co/AKxZj7eBEy https://t.co/ICOocgWKq9 — PolitiTweet.org

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As wildfires rage in California, @GavinNewsom moves to ban new gasoline car sales as of 2035. @dino_grandoni w/ @brady_dennis looks at the policy's implication for the nation's auto market, and the climate: https://t.co/M6QP52mLtV — PolitiTweet.org

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President Trump’s dive into campaigning as usual defies the coronavirus and assumes he can turn attention from it. Democrats see folly. Via @jdawsey1 and @michaelscherer https://t.co/p0GZXds3Ad — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anniegowen: I’m so sad that the Bayleaf Indian restaurant in my town run by a beautiful Punjabi family is closing. Like 100,000 other r… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justinsink: guys i texted him to complain about @EricSchultz on twitter, will report back on how he responds — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GregJaffe: Strangest foreign policy story of 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @afreedma: Fascinating & frightening study on temperature sensitivity of Antarctic Ice Sheet. Quote from press release re: long-term sea… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @atrupar: Q: Will you commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election? TRUMP: "We're gonna have to see what happens." https:/… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump warns he may reject FDA plan for tougher standards for a coronavirus vaccine hours after the agency's commissioner assures Congress that an approval will be free of political interference, via @lauriemcginley2 and @goldsteinamy https://t.co/QkcHPxWsnF — PolitiTweet.org

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A day after tapes emerged in which #PebbleMine officials boasted of their ties to the Trump White House and GOP politicians, its U.S. CEO has resigned. But the head of the Canadian firm behind the project, who disparaged AK's two senators, is staying. https://t.co/EAgL05rEXE — PolitiTweet.org