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On today\\u2019s Post Reports, more than 200 meatpacking workers have died of covid-19. Critics say that federal regulators have endangered employees by failing to respond appropriately. How the pandemic is transforming family practice doctors. And the Big 10 turns a 180. 

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So far, more than 200 meat packing employees have died of covid-19 in the United States. \\u201cWe\\u2019re talking about problems in more than four hundred meat plants,\\u201d investigative reporter Kimberly Kindy says, but \\u201ctwo received fines: one Smithfield plant in South Dakota, one JBS in Colorado \\u2026 And the fines were very small.\\u201d

Small, independent family practices are facing greater hardship as the pandemic wears on, especially in rural areas.. \\u201cFamily doctors are really sort of the front-line physicians in American health care,\\u201d says business of health reporter Chris Rowland. \\u201cTheir role, although they\'re the lowest-paid in medicine, is absolutely crucial to the functioning of the health system.\\u201d 

College football\\u2019s Big Ten was the first major conference to postpone its season. On Wednesday, Emily Giambalvo reports, it made a stunning reversal of that decision by announcing the season will resume at the end of October. 

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