Source: Christian Green, CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS, 4/12/21


Last summer, COVID-19 cases surged among North Carolina’s farmworkers. In July, the Farmworker Advocacy Network estimated outbreaks at more than 30 farms. Bottomley Evergreens & Farms in Alleghany County had one of the largest outbreaks among farmworkers in the state, with more than 100 positive cases in August among the business’s 400 employees. Now, COVID-19 vaccines could provide relief for the North Carolina farmworker population, and a patchwork of Western North Carolina community health centers, local health departments and nonprofit organizations is working to vaccinate farmworkers in the mountainous region before cases rise again. 

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