Amazon said Thursday that 19,816 of its U.S. employees have tested positive or are presumed positive for Covid-19.
The announcement, part of a blog post published by Amazon, offers the public’s first national overview of how the pandemic has hit the company’s sizable domestic workforce through September 19.
According to Amazon’s calculations, the company’s infection rate is 42 percent lower than expected based on the general population.
“Based on this analysis, if the rate among Amazon and Whole Foods Market employees were the same as it is for the general population rate, we estimate that we would have seen 33,952 cases among our workforce,” the company wrote. “In reality, 19,816 employees have tested positive or been presumed positive for COVID-19 — 42% lower than the expected number.”
Read more at NBC News.
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