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Groups rush to get Florida farmworkers vaccinated

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MIAMI – It's a race against time for nonprofits, organizations and officials who are trying to vaccinate thousands of farmworkers who were denied priority access in Florida but now have to travel north to harvest crops in other regions.

Farmworker advocates are asking officials to quickly mobilize to areas such as Homestead, south of Miami, and Immokalee, east of Naples, and to be more lenient when requiring proof of residency now that the state has lowered the vaccine eligibility age.

They say many farmworkers are in the country illegally and don't have a driver's license or other documents required as an alternative.

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