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COVID-19 farmworker study seeks to find solutions to workers’ elevated vulnerability for contracting virus

July 30, 2020 / By Elizabeth Sanchez
Tags: central valley, COVID-19, COVID-19 farmworker study, farm workers, farmworker study, Farmworkers, Health, health care, Healthcare, PPE, UFW, Undocumented, working conditions

Agricultural workers have an elevated vulnerability for contracting COVID-19, according to a statewide survey on farmworkers’ worksite conditions during the pandemic.

OUR VIEW: Time to protect our ‘essential’ farmworkers and not double up on oppressing them

April 20, 2020 / By Kern Sol News
Tags: Coronoavirus, COVID, COVID-19, farm workers, farmworker, GEO, ICE, immigrant, immigration detention centers, Kern County, mcfarland, Mesa Verde Detention

There is a small farm working community in Kern County where essential workers risk their lives everyday by going to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic to provide the nation with the food we eat.