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Deadly ride: How coronavirus struck down Bell & Evans poultry workers going to work in a crowded van

Eight workers who often traveled to work together in a van all got sick from the coronavirus. Crammed together for the 30-mile drive, none of them could keep their distance from one another on their way to jobs they couldn’t afford to give up.

Rafael Ferreiras shows an iPhone photo of his late father, also named Rafael, who died of COVID-19. The wife of the elder Ferreiras works at the Bell & Evans poultry processing plant in Fredericksburg, Pa.
Rafael Ferreiras shows an iPhone photo of his late father, also named Rafael, who died of COVID-19. The wife of the elder Ferreiras works at the Bell & Evans poultry processing plant in Fredericksburg, Pa.Read moreJOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer