UC sets $3 million to improve farmworkers' virus safety
Hector Amezcua/UC Davis The COVID-19 Statewide Agriculture and Farmworker Education Program is designed to help California's 800,000 farmworkers stay safe during the pandemic. A university team is working with agricultural industry and community groups. Diane Nelson | Feb 08, 2021 California’s 800,000 farmworkers have been hit hard by COVID-19, the disease that has infected more than 25 million people and killed more than 420,000 in the United States. Farmworkers are especially vulnerable to the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 because they often live, work and...
Source: farmprogress.com