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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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

    Along with teachers, California farmworkers are now eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine. The timing is good, since farm workers are soon returning to the fields to harvest spring crops.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Mar 1, 2021 • 8m Listen

    Along with teachers, California farmworkers are now eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine. The timing is good, since farm workers are soon returning to the fields to harvest spring crops. But there are concerns with how Blue Shield, which has taken over statewide distribution, will handle the rollout in hard-to-reach places like the fields.

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Ethics of COVID vaccine shopping
    1. 0:00LAUSD plans to reopen in April. It could receive enough vaccine doses for educators to do so
    2. 8:14California farmworkers now qualify for COVID vaccines. What it takes to get doses to themYou’re reading this
    3. 16:22Ethics around COVID vaccine shopping: Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer or Moderna?
    4. 25:09US Supreme Court hears big Arizona case centering on Voting Rights Act
    5. 34:37'Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK': Music for hiking around Griffith Park, curated just for you
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