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As COVID-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers

from Food & Environment Reporting Network

As COVID-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers Food & Environment Reporting Network Advocates have warned since the beginning of the pandemic that the 2.4 million farmworkers who plant and harvest the nation's food live and labor under conditions that make them extremely vulnerable to the novel coronavirus. And now, just as they predicted, outbreaks among farmworkers have erupted in agricultural hubs across the country as peak summer harvest season gets underway, from Florida to New York, California to Washington State. In California's Monterey County, which is one of the nation's top agricultural regions, agricultural workers account for nearly 36% of COVID-19 cases. READ MORE

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