Santa Clara County Vaccinates 500 Farmworkers on Cesar Chavez Day
Monterey Mushrooms has hosted a vaccination site three times since farmworkers become eligible for the vaccine on Feb. 28. Since then, it has able to vaccinate more than half of its 1,200 employees and hundreds more agricultural workers employed at other farms, said Shah Kazemi, president and CEO of Monterey Mushrooms. Of the 500 farmworkers getting their vaccines Wednesday, 100 were Monterey Mushroom employees and the rest were other farmworkers in the county, he noted. Kazemi said the pandemic has been especially hard on his business and employees. “We have had as many as 50 to 60 p...
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