California targets critical farmworkers for vaccinations sfgate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfgate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 people off at any given day, Kazemi said. So it s been very challenging.
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Eager to be vaccinated, California farmworkers face obstacles msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.