North Carolina has a plan to get COVID-19 vaccines to migrant farmworkers Its success will be crucial to protecting workers health ncpolicywatch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ncpolicywatch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This month, thousands of migrant workers will begin the hard work of planting, tending and harvesting crops in North Carolina farm fields.
The state Department of Health and Human Services, farmworker health groups, employers, and medical clinics plan to make COVID-19 vaccines available to workers whose close living conditions make for the easy spread of the coronavirus. Migrant farmworkers work long hours each day. Many don’t have internet access, move from farm to farm over the season, speak Spanish as their first language, and depend on their employers to get around.
The size of the migrant workforce this year is unknown, but the NC Department of Commerce estimated there were 80,000 migrant and seasonal workers in the state in 2017 during peak harvest. Most, 71%, were migrant workers.
Some state have left farmworkers out of their COVID-19 vaccine rollout wisfarmer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wisfarmer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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