Amazon has announced that 19,816 of its front-line employees at Amazon and Whole Foods have tested positive or been presumed positive for the coronavirus during the pandemic
Amazon had repeatedly resisted sharing comprehensive data with the public and with its own workers about the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases at its warehouses, which have become crucial hubs for household supplies during the pandemic.
In a blog post, the company said it did a"thorough analysis of data on all 1,372,000 Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the US employed at any time from March 1 to September 19, 2020." Amazon said it then compared its case rates to the general population during the same period, using reporting from Johns Hopkins University.
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