Amazon said nearly 20,000 workers got coronavirus

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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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How many have actually tested positive? Presumed positive, what does that mean? Had a fever, called in sick or

Huh I won’t buy from amazon then!

So masks aren’t helping them?

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6+ft & mask and avoid large gatherings, especially indoors. We ALL must do the best we can. How many more times will we have to re-learn this simple life saving lesson?

Watchdogsniffer That’s awesome since I shop there wtf

Be happy comrades.

Presumed positive?!?!?! Lolol..sicko's

Cool store

Trump just totally wrecked Biden saying a Great Leader doesn’t hide!

Fake virus

How did they conduct 20,000 tests in one day? And did they all stay home to isolate? Or did they keep showing up for work

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Democrats

Still I love working at amazon to keep the country running and to be fair they’re doing their best to keep staffs safe and prevent getting infected ✌🏽🤝🥂

Have you noticed how big companies are trying to scare the economy into recession about Covid right before the election?

Amazing, 20k cases and I assume most of those workers were required to wear mask. Was Bezos careless & reckless? And for the owner of the Wash Post that criticizes Trump & Americans every day about COVID best practices & lifting lockdowns, this is a bit ironic & hypocritical

Amazon has about 1 million employees. Twenty thousand infections for that many people is right in line with the national average.

Masks have little preventive value.

Speedy recovery to all. 💙

PAY THEM MORE!

not surprising it being very tough working environments in each of their warehouses. wonder if our future generations will learn any thing from now society's jackass behavior about this fatal illness covid sigh

~20k for just one company. Scary.

Wtf are these drivers or what.

Omg

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How many presumed vs confirmed?

This is terrible

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How many died? Asking for a friend who’s sick of Federal/State Gov’t tyranny and constantly being locked up for the sake of already chronic-illness plagued people who probably shouldn’t be out and about anyways...

The panic attack 😬 wow....

Am I going to stop buying from Amazon? Nope. They are freaking awesome at getting me stuff cheap and fast. That’s their business and they are the best at it.

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So I dunno......maybe... pay them more?

Prayers for healing prayers everyone stays safe and healthy 🙏🏽♥️

Tested positive and presumed positive, so they just guessed on a lot of them, how many actually tested positive? How many did they just guess on? I presume that amazon owes me a billion dollars , so let’s make that happen as well.

Lies. Everything CNN posts is an absolute lie and most free thinking Americans know that.

So face masks and gloves 🧤 don’t really work or what? 😷 Never mind. I don’t want to know.

Presumed... fuck me! Ridiculous.

And 19,600 had no or minor symptoms

getting any virus 🦠 is different from being affected by it

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We presume you would report at the very least -minimally- fairly buuuut

Great what about all the packages they touch!?

Fortunately it was contained because no one was allowed to leave....not even for a pee

And how many died?

Presumed positive? LMFAO

Amazon has always treated their employees badly, not wondering here

Distance is King!

Weirdly, that's not bad. Amazon employs 1 million people (0.27%) of the US population. 19,000 workers with COVID represents 0.30% of the cases. You're (slightly) safer working for Amazon than not.

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Ok. No more orders.

Out of over a million. Not really a story.

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