Fourth-year med student Edward Corty wrote an op-ed piece for the Tampa Bay Times titled, "Farmworker health is essential to COVID-19 response."
He writes, "Farmworkers are a uniquely vulnerable population that I have had the opportunity to care for in medical school ... In Immokalee, I’ve walked through houses where 20 farmworkers and family members—including young children—crowd into dim and damp rooms, with each individual only guaranteed 50 square feet to themselves. Farmworker surveys show that this is the norm. One only has to look to recent reporting on migrant worker health in Singapore to see what is coming. This is how COVID-19 spreads."