Under the distracting title of Update On Covid-19 Testing, Amazon published a blog post that reveals their analysis of data on the prevalence of the disease among their front-line employees. Across almost 1.4 million Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees, just under 20,000 people tested positive or were presumed positive. They say they “hope other large companies will also release their detailed learnings and case rates because doing so will help all of us.” Amazon has built their own Covid-19 testing capacity and is “ramping quickly, conducting thousands of tests a day and growing to 50,000 tests a day […]
