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Kim Bojórquez
The Sacramento Bee
Against the backdrop of a global health crisis and a summer of unprecedented wildfires, California s 800,000 farmworkers continue to sustain the state s annual $50-billion agricultural industry in order to make a living and provide for their loved ones.
It comes at a cost.
A new study released by the Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas and the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health underscores the COVID-19 pandemic s unequal toll on agricultural workers in California. The majority of participants in the study, conducted between July and November, were from Mexico and identified as Latino.