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Amazon says nearly 20,000 US employees have contracted COVID this year – Source CNET Tech

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An Amazon employee protest in late March outside a warehouse in Staten Island, New York.


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Amazon for the first time publicly reported its total number of coronavirus cases in its front-line US workforce, revealing the information months after state attorneys general and activist employees called for the release of this information.

Amazon said in a blog post Thursday that 19,816 of its workers have tested positive or were presumed positive between March 1 and Sept. 19, a positivity rate of 1.44% when compared to the total number of US workers. Comparing to general population figures from…

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