Hundreds of farmworkers and agriculture employees in Imperial County receive COVID-19 vaccine
IMPERIAL, Calif. (KYMA, KECY), Hundreds were vaccinated at Imperial County’s first mass vaccine clinic for the food and agriculture sector on Friday.
The clinic is one many have been waiting for even before the vaccine touched ground in the states.
The nation s farm workers have worked endlessly throughout the pandemic and have been labeled by the CDC amongst the highest at risk to contract COVID-19.
“We have become far too familiar with the data, the mortality rates and the highest risk among them the seniors, and the farmworkers and agriculture population as a whole, said Luis Olmedo, Comite Civico Del Valle.