(This article is part of the California Today newsletter. Before state officials announced that 40 percent of the state’s new vaccine doses would go to low-income communities, leaders were struggling to make good on promises to prioritize vulnerable Californians in the vaccine rollout. As my colleague Miriam Jordan recently wrote, farmworkers were among those who were disproportionately hurt by the pandemic and harder to reach with help. But a landmark initiative is taking vaccine doses to the fields of the Coachella Valley. She explained more in this dispatch:A year ago, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, agricultural workers were deemed “essential” by the Trump administration.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2021 13:41 UTC