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Wildfires and COVID-19: When Disasters Overlap, Agricultural Workers Struggle

Farmworkers in the field with heavy smoke in the sky
Photo: United Farm Workers 

What’s the Impact of COVID-19 on Food and Farmworkers? MCN’s Amy Liebman Joins Marylanders to Discuss

MCN Position Statement: Testing of Agricultural Workers Helps Essential Workers Stay Safe and Healthy

Crab Pickers Face Health Disparities in Maryland, Says New Report

MCN’s Dr. Ed Zuroweste to New York State Labor and Wage Board on Overtime: “We Cannot Continue to Abuse Farmworkers”

Essential: Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke in California – and Health Care Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19 – With Respirators

Call to Action: Protect Maryland Farmworkers from COVID-19

Monterey County Medical-Legal Partnership Lays Groundwork for Expanded and Unprecedented Coalition of Agricultural Leaders, Farmworker Advocates, and Clinicians

Dr. Eula Bingham: Heroine for workers’ right to safe and healthy jobs

Dr. Eula Bingham
Dr. Eula Bingham (2015). Credit: Maryam Jameel/Center for Public Integrity

Written by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH, The Pump Handle 

We’re not blaming the elderly. We’re not blaming healthcare workers. So why do we accuse essential workers for being sickened and killed by COVID-19?

Meat processing plant workers

By Amy K. Liebman, MPA 
Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network, Salisbury, MD 

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