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Farmworkers Are Among Those at Highest Risk for COVID-19, Studies Show
Studies show agricultural workers are among those at highest risk of contracting COVID-19. In the fields, harvest crews work side-by-side cutting rows of vegetables, making it impossible to keep six feet apart. Housing is scarce and expensive, so multiple families often crowd into one small home.
July 21, 2020
She Has Cancer and Is High-Risk for COVID Complications. But Like Many Essential Farmworkers, She Can’t Stay Home
Sinthia Hernandez’s story helps reveal “COVID’s Hidden Toll” on workers maintaining America’s food supply, many of them undocumented immigrants.
July 21, 2020
Essential and Unprotected
They’ve been keeping America fed throughout the pandemic — and they say they’ve had to choose between their health and their jobs.
July 21, 2020
Beyond the Line at the Tampa Food Bank, a World of Other Need
Five months into its pandemic relief effort, Tampa nonprofit Metropolitan Ministries is crafting new ways to help needy families.
July 15, 2020
Four Iraqis on Searching For Hope 17 Years After the Iraq War
For the people of Iraq, the fallout from the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 continues to this day, sometimes in unexpected — and violent — ways. Four Iraqis share what has happened in their lives and in Iraq since they filmed with FRONTLINE.
July 14, 2020
Meet a Woman Who Helped Her Town Save Some 850 People Threatened by ISIS
When ISIS massacred some 1,700 Iraqi cadets from Camp Speicher, one woman and her town helped save an estimated 850 others from meeting the same fate.
July 14, 2020
As Trump And Biden Battle, Election Officials Are Running Out of Time, Money For November
Sixteen weeks before a presidential election, hundreds of cash-strapped elections supervisors across the U.S. are waiting to see how much state and federal money will be coming their way.
July 14, 2020
Chronicling the Current War on Press Freedom in the Philippines, “A THOUSAND CUTS” The New Documentary from Filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz Opens in Theaters and Virtual Cinemas Nationwide on August 7
FRONTLINE (PBS) and PBS Distribution announced that the acclaimed documentary A THOUSAND CUTS will theatrically release in theaters and virtual cinemas nationwide on August 7, 2020. The theatrical trailer and poster were also unveiled today.
July 13, 2020
U.S. Bets On Small, Untested Company to Deliver COVID Vaccine
As part of its strategy to administer the vaccine as quickly as possible, the Trump administration has agreed to invest more than a half billion in tax dollars in a young company that hasn’t yet set up a factory to manufacture the devices.
July 10, 2020
Why Does Coronavirus Hit Hispanics Harder? Reasons Might Be Found In Wimauma
About half of the COVID-19 cases reported nationwide include data on ethnicity, or 1.06 million of them. Hispanics make up more than a third of these cases — nearly twice their share of the population as a whole.
July 7, 2020