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New York state has announced a targeted effort to vaccinate farmworkers and employees of food production facilities against COVID-19. The state says it will work with local health departments and Federally Qualified Health Centers to bring pop-up vaccination sites to work locations.
WAMC s Jim Levulis spoke with Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, about the effort.
Dudley: At the beginning of February, the Biden administration set aside 11 million additional vaccines for farmworkers, homeless people, populations with limited English and those living in public housing, specifically, because we understand that these populations have technological challenges as well as linguistic challenges. And so making sure that there are extra vaccines that could go through the appropriate organizations is important. So to give you a little bit of background on that, we have in New York State three federally designated migrant health centers, providers, these are the
TRADE continued at unprecedented levels at Skipton Auction Mart’s weekly prime cattle sale when top gross price of £1,604 (232.5p/kg) fell to a 690kg Limousin-x heifer consigned by Charles Stanton, of Clitheroe, making a welcome return after a lengthy absence to the Skipton cattle ring. It was purchased by Halifax meat wholesalers J&E Medcalf on behalf of A&D Meats in Rossendale. Sheila Mason, who runs the Keasden herd in Clapham, claimed top per kilo call of 267.5p/kg (£1,391) with her 520kg British Blue-x heifer. It was knocked down to Robert Pearson for his Ralph Pearson Wholesale Butchers in Bradford, whose nine acquisitions also included the leading per kilo steer, a 570kg Limousin-x from North Craven father and son regulars, Francis and Andrew Smith, of Masongill, at 261.5p/kg (£1,491).