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The Butterball poultry processing plant in Carthage, Missouri is one of several major plants that employ many Latinx immigrants.
Through grainy video on a recent Facebook live event, Missouri health director Dr. Randall Williams explained who was currently eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. A moment later, an interpreter from the Mexican consulate in Kansas City provided a translation.
The live stream was the consulate’s idea.
Consul Alfonso Navarro Bernachi has been working with the Missouri health department since the start of the pandemic. “We’ve been participating in a weekly meetings with the department of health in order to better know what is the outlook of vaccinations,” Bernachi says.