Amazon says 19,816 workers got Covid-19 this year by rachsandl
Workers protest against the failure from their employers to provide adequate protections in theworkplace of the Amazon delivery hub on National May Day Walkout/Sickout by workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Innstacart and Shipt amid the Covid-19 pandemic on May 1, 2020, in Hawthorne, California.The number comes from an analysis of 1.37 million Amazon and Whole Foods frontline workers in the U.S. employed at any time from March 1 to September 19, Amazon said.
Amazon released state-by-state data, which shows employees in Florida and New Mexico had the highest number of cases per 1000 people. Based on the infection rate for the general U.S. population, Amazon said it expected 33,952 cases among warehouse workers and Whole Foods employees, which is 42% less than the actual number of cases.to release workforce infection rates for months, with workers resorting to tracking the number of positive cases themselves with crowdsourced databases.
Amazon hopes to conduct 50,000 coronavirus tests per day across 650 sites starting in November, something it can do because it hired its own lab team with the goal of testing most frontline employees everyEarly in the pandemic, Amazon became a target of labor groups, Democratic lawmakers and internal protests over its coronavirus procedures.
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