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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...

Andres Benitez – a Food and Nutrition Service provider at Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, New Jersey – passed away on March 23, 2020, due to Covid-19 Andres Benitez worked in the hospital's Food & Nutrition Services Department since 2004, said Holy Name President and CEO Michael Maron. "Many of us knew and loved Andres, who was in charge of catering, a job he performed conscientiously and with great attention to detail," he wrote. It was rare that Benitez didn't have a smile, those who knew him said. "We remember him putting out our breakfast every morning, transporting food throughout the medical center and setting up the venues for special events -- always with a warm smile and friendly greeting," one wrote. Source: Tean...

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Jose Roberto Alvarez, food worker

Andres Benitez, Food and Nutrition Service provider