- i think what we do is so important, talking to so many people, hearing them out, listening to what they have to say. - is there a reason why you haven't been vaccinated?

- - we also think about, like, the huge immigrant population in far rockaway. - - we take care of those people who are undocumented.

- - that one-on-one interaction, it feels like they can trust someone. - - this neighborhood, there's so much poverty and so much going on, it's so important to hear people like this, that are struggling, that need information.

You're out there talking to them and giving them that warm welcome to come and get that vaccine so it can save their lives. - the united states will purchase half a billion doses of pfizer covid-19 vaccine to donate to nearly 100 nations that are in dire need in the fight against this pandemic.

- president joe biden and the g-7 leaders hope to get the world vaccinated by the end of 2022. But the work at home isn't done yet.

Many latino immigrant communities are among those with the lowest vaccination rates in the united states. Hesitancy, misinformation, the inability to miss work and concerns about documentation all contribute to undervaccination.

But groups across the country are working hard to close the gap. - ♪ ♪ ♪ - the agricultural areas of california are some of the worst hit by covid.

- the pandemic has destroyed our community. I buried five family members.

Almost all our team and staff has had somebody pass away due to covid, and why? Because they were scared to go to the doctor.

Right now, our workers are not thinking of prevention, they're thinking of survival, so we have to be here in the fields, we have to bring the information to the fields. Did you decide to get the vaccine today?

- - register them at the fields, have the clinics in the fields, and work with the growers so they could go get vaccinated during work hours so they don't feel they're losing out on working. - - a lot of workers were asking questions about what they're hearing in the community as for the chip, or if it's true that if they get vaccinated, they're not gonna have any more kids or they're gonna lose...

They may change genders. So this is very common, so we work debunking a lot of the myths.

We want to make sure that our community is protected, and we're using vaccination as a method to save lives. - in florida, a state with nearly 800.

000 undocumented immigrants, vaccines were not easy to get. - for our patients and the people we serve, it hasn't been equitable.

Most of the people that come here have been working in the fields, in the nurseries, the restaurants, groceries stores. They didn't have the privilege to isolate, they couldn't stop working, they had to feed their families.

More than 150. 000 farmworkers live in florida, responsible for nearly 20.

000 covid cases. - at one time we had about 40% of the people we tested didn't have symptoms.

Forty percent. And they were going out because they had to.

So for them to be able to come and get their vaccine here was wonderful for them, because they know us and they trust us, because we wanted to make sure that the hardest-to-reach people had that opportunity to get those appointments and come. - - at one point, new york city was the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states, and no section was hit harder than far rockaway, a community of 67.

000, and heavily immigrant. So the city is bringing vaccines to them.

Ten buses are providing doses to areas hardest to reach. - - ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪