COVID-19 Acutely Impacted the Delmarva Poultry Industry in Early 2020.

Early community spread of COVID-19 presented a public health crisis and Delmarva's essential workforce at the poultry processing plants. Plant workers in May 2020 were struggling to adapt to exposure risk and illness in the workforce. Furthermore, pressures of an unfamiliar marketplace strained the supply and demand linkages in poultry processing.