Black, Latino NC workers had to play 'Russian Roulette' during COVID. The toll was steep.

For Rigoberto Cabrera Lopez and his family, working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t an option.

All labored in close quarters in meat processing plants east of Fayetteville, where coronavirus outbreaks began to pop up early last year. Cabrera Lopez continued to chop pork, though, even in late April 2020 after a coworker fell ill with what appeared to be COVID-19, his wife, Tomasa Cabrera, said.

Cabrera Lopez died on May 5, within a week of getting sick. He was 48.

“I didn’t think that this would happen, since most people get sick, and not to the point of dying, like my husband did,” Cabrera told a reporter in Spanish. “I thought he would recover, but he didn’t.”

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(Durham Herald Sun)