Jose Roberto Alvarez, food worker
Jose Roberto Alvarez, a worker at Mission Foods in Commerce in Los Angeles County, died from Covid-19 complications on July 20, 2020.
For Alisha Alvarez, the daughter of a high-risk essential worker, receiving the call that her parents had tested positive for COVID-19 was something she had feared for months, especially because of her father.
“On Sunday, [June] 28th, him and my mom went to go get tested and they were both positive,” Alvarez explained. “The minute I got that call, it was heart wrenching.”
Alvarez had major concerns about her dad, Jose Roberto Alvarez, 67, who was working full-time as the head of the maintenance team at Mission Foods, one of three locations shutdown by LA County Public Health on Sunday for failing to report outbrea...
