Op-Ed: Indigenous farmworkers are being hit by COVID myths — and deaths
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Op-Ed: Indigenous farmworkers are being hit by COVID myths — and deaths

LA Times  

COVID-19 has been deadly for my Mixtec Indigenous community along California’s Central Coast. Eulalia Natividad Mendoza, 44, who contracted COVID-19 and now works to educate Indigenous farmworkers about the virus, stands in an Oxnard strawberry field in September. A 2010 study says there are approximately 165,000 farmworkers and their family members, mostly from the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero in Mexico and belonging to the Mixtec community. Moreover, employers also don’t usually provide workers with basic work safety equipment, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such as gloves and masks.

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