COVID-19 has spread among Central Valley farmworkers at an alarming rate and, on Thursday, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is awarding $3.7 million in grants to the University of California, Davis, to expand testing. “It is critical that all Americans have access to rapid, accurate diagnostics for […]
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NC not doing enough to protect immigrant farmworkers from coronavirus, advocates say
Reported coronavirus cases are rising among seasonal farmworkers living in migrant worker housing, a group setting like nursing homes that the state is watching. On Tuesday, 128 new COVID-19 cases across four farms were reported through June, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. That was more […]