California won't conquer coronavirus until it can protect essential workers.
There is a potential model for this fight in nursing homes, where many Californians who died from the virus were infected. If officials have been able to figure out how to reduce the spread there through widespread adoption of masks and improved infection control procedures, they can probably protect low-income essential workers, experts said.“If you can cut this in a hospital or a nursing home, almost certainly you can handle it somewhere else. That’s a no brainer,” said Dr.
“Under this pandemic we were unprepared ... and too many farmworkers and essential workers are at risk,” said state Assemblyman Robert Rivas , whose grandfather was a farmworker. “That needs to change.” From his Lutheran parish in Lodi in the Central Valley, he has worked with his wife, an epidemiologist and dentist, to provide aid — money, food, tests — since the coronavirus began. Many of his parishioners are poor, working jobs in fields, grocery stories, day care centers and medical facilities.“They are suffering a lot,” Rabell said. “It’s just the perfect storm of irresponsible government action at all levels.
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