Hernan Hernandez

Executive Director of California Farmworker Foundation

Hernan Hernandez on KCRW

Along with teachers, California farmworkers are now eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine.

California farmworkers now qualify for COVID vaccines. What it takes to get doses to them

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