/ farmworker safety Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/uc-davis-launches-3-million-project-improve-farmworker-covid-safety <p>California’s 800,000 farmworkers have been hit hard by COVID-19, the disease that has infected more than 25 million people and killed more than 420,000 in the United States. Farmworkers are especially vulnerable to the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 because they often live, work and carpool in close quarters with other people. As essential employees, farmworkers have stayed on the job during the pandemic to plant, process and harvest the nation’s food.</p> January 27, 2021 - 10:00am Amy M Quinton /news/uc-davis-launches-3-million-project-improve-farmworker-covid-safety