Amazon said Thursday that nearly 20,000 workers tested positive or presumed positive for COVID-19, however, that number may have been higher given the trends the pandemic has shown in the United States.
However, Amazon wrote, based on COVID-19 case rates in the us general population. U. S. , as reported through Johns Hopkins University in the same period, Amazon may have noticed about 33952 cases among its workforce.
An Amazon spokesperson told CRN via email that the company could not provide any more data outside the blog. The spokesperson also did not specify who the blog post was attributed to, or whether Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos approved the post or not.
Amazon said the number of instances counted among its workers was conservative and included instances shown and suspected. At the same time, the number of instances in the US is the same as the number of instances in the US. However, as a total is likely underestimated because not all are screened or screened for coronavirus, while all Amazon workers are screened for symptoms or examined regardless of whether they have symptoms or not.
Amazon said it published the number of cases of COVID-19 coronavirus, which few or no other corporations make, as a utility.
“We hope that other giant corporations will also publish their detailed data and case rates, as this will help us all. This is not an arena where corporations compete, it’s an arena where corporations help each other,” the company wrote.
Amazon also said it was looking for others to take steps to publish their data.
“A wide availability of knowledge would allow us to compare our progress and percentage of more productive practices between corporations and sectors. Unfortunately, there are no criteria for reporting or sharing this knowledge and there is very little comparable data on infection rates and quarantine rates to be We all have a direct interest in returning to a safe edition of normalcy and in helping our communities and the economy safely. We hope that sharing this knowledge and our learning will inspire others to stick together and be useful when making decisions about reopening public services and employers if they want others to return to work and how to do so,” the company wrote.
Amazon wrote that it is currently conducting thousands of tests a day and plans to conduct 50,000 tests a day at 650 sites through November.
“And because we’ve built this capability ourselves, we’re increasing the total amount of evidence available, without supplying others,” the company wrote.
In addition to widespread verification, the company is temporarily hiring positive workers to help prevent the spread of coronavirus to others, Amazon wrote. The company also offers comprehensive fitness insurance as well as paid leave to any worker who wishes to be quarantined. Amazon has also distributed more than a hundred million face masks, eliminated state meeting shifts, changed rest times, increased the distance between chairs in break rooms, and other measures of social estating. minutes, said the corporate.
The tests, combined with social estating, have had a positive effect on reducing the spread of the virus among Amazon employees, Amazon wrote.
“In early March, when we first introduced social estating, we placed 3 or 4 quarantine workers paid for each case shown. Since then, our social distance measurements and the search for touch video on our sites have reduced this number to a fraction of a user will be quarantined based on a proven case. This means that our workers have a very low threat of transmission in the workplace. And as we accentuate the tests, we’ll be able to identify other more asymptomatic people, temporarily look for touches, apply our quarantine procedure, and help remove others from the network so they can before infecting others,” Amazon wrote.
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