On October 1, Amazon disclosed that only 19,816 of its U.S. employees “have tested positive or been presumed positive for COVID-19.”
19,816 may sound like a big number, but it is only 1.44 percent of Amazon’s 1.372 million U.S. employees.
2.18 percent of all Americans have been infected, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
This means that Americans, many of whom during the lockdowns have not worked or have worked alone at home, have been at least 51.3 percent more likely to become infected than Amazon and Whole Foods employees who interact with customers, suppliers, and co-workers in grocery stores, work side by side in fulfillment centers, and visit customers in office buildings, hospitals, apartment buildings, and everywhere else while making deliveries.
