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Seth Holmes

Seth Holmes is a physician and medical anthropologist on faculty at UC Berkeley and author of the book, "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States."

Farmers being tested for COVID-19 (Coalition of Immokalee Workers)

Farmworkers are dying, COVID-19 cases are spiking, and the food system is in peril

Seth Holmes
Medical personnel transport the first patient affected by COVID-19 to an ICU tent ( Emanuele Cremaschi/Stringer/Getty Images)

In a defunded health system, doctors and nurses suffer near-impossible conditions

Seth Holmes, Liza Buchbinder
A young boy watches his migrant worker motherwhile she picks grape tomatoes in Rocky Point, N.C. (AP/Jeffrey A. Camarati)

Not all migrants want to be immigrants

Seth Holmes