Table 3.

Concerns about their employment and risks of COVID-19, comparing respondents in farmworker and non-farmworker families in North Carolina, May 2020.

Theme	Representative Quotations
Farmworker families
Difficulties maintaining physical distancing	• We work in groups, and we cannot keep the distance. • We work too close to each other when we are planting. • We are too close together when we work in the blueberry, and there are a lot of us there. • We really work very closely when we plant the tobacco. • We are planting tobacco, and we are working closely together. There are several of us. • We are very close [in the fields], and it is all day. • We just work too close to each other when we are planting.
Problems with mask use	• We use scarves to cover our mouths, but sometimes we sweat and take them off. • Even though we have bandanas to cover our mouths, I worry I might get sick.
Non-farmworker families
Possible contact with infected individuals	• There are lots of people coming into the office where I work. • [My employers] are hiring people from a factory that had people who were infected. • [At my worksite] they have already found five positive workers. They closed the factory on March 20 and reopened on April 27. In that week they found one [positive case]. • I worry about getting infected in the houses where I do housecleaning. • I do customer service, [so see many people].
Difficulties maintaining physical distancing	• I work at a store and I worry that people are stubborn and they don’t want to keep the required distance