Minorities in food, agriculture jobs especially hard hit by COVID-19Racial and ethnic minority workers have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in food manufacturing and agriculture workplaces, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.Demographics were not available for all 742 sites surveyed across 30 states, but for those that were, 83.2% of confirmed cases involved minorities even though they made up only 47.4% of all workers.Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their state partners looked at state health department data for workers in food manufacturing and agricultural workplaces from Mar 1 through May 31, finding 8,978 cases and 55 (0.6%) deaths.