Nearly 20K U.S. Amazon Workers Test Positive For Coronavirus

Amazon on Thursday said that 19,816 Amazon and Whole Foods Market frontline employees across the U.S. have tested positive or are presumed positive for COVID-19. The e-commerce giant said in a blog post that it did “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, 2020” and, based on rates in the general population as reported by Johns Hopkins University, concluded its result is lower than expected. In an emailed statement, the United Food and Commercial Workers International union slammed the outcome and called for “action by federal regulators and a full Congressional investigation.” Read more at Retail Dive.