Nearly 20,000 Amazon employees have tested positive or been presumed positive for COVID-19, according to the company. The retailer has done a thorough analysis of data on all 1,372,000 Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the U.S. employed at any time from March 1 to September 19. The real number of infected employees-19,816-is 42 percent lower than the expected number of cases predicted by the analysis.
Currently, Amazon is conducting thousands of tests a day, growing to 50,000 tests a day across 650 sites by November as part of its effort to keep front-line employees safe.
Amazon described its safety efforts in a blog post. “All in, we've introduced or changed over 150 processes to ensure the health and safety of our teams, including distributing over 100 million face masks, implementing temperature checks at sites around the world, mandating enhanced cleaning procedures at all of our sites, and introducing extensive social distancing measures to reduce the risk for our employees,” the post said.
The retailer also encouraged other companies to share their data. “This information would be more powerful if there were similar data from other major employers to compare it to. Wide availability of data would allow us to benchmark our progress and share best practices across businesses and industries. We hope sharing this data and our learnings will encourage others to follow, and will prove useful as states make decisions about reopening public facilities and employers consider whether and how to bring people back to work.”
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