John Glenn Morris, researcher at UF, has found that agricultural employees on H-2 visas are a vulnerable population in the COVID-19 pandemic. They lack control over their living conditions and find it difficult to socially distance on employer-provided transportation to the work site.

Morris’s research highlights factors that make guest agricultural workers particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. Morris suggests that these employees need stronger health protections to benefit overall public health. H-2A visa workers make up 10% of the US agricultural workforce and require new health strategies to prevent infection spread.

• Michael Lauzardo
• John Morris