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December 4, 2020

California Farmworkers Infected by Coronavirus at Three Times the Rate of Other Workers
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Back in the United States, California's farmworkers have contracted
COVID-19 at nearly three times the rate of other state residents. That's
according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley
researchers - the first report to explore how farmworkers are
disproportionately affected by the pandemic. The report also found
farmworkers who only spoke an Indigenous language had higher positivity
rates than farmworkers who spoke Spanish or English. 


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