It seems the 20K workers is in total since March 1st, and these are 20K workers who had/have COVID but did not necessarily catch it at Amazon. That seems lower

It seems the 20K workers is in total since March 1st, and these are 20K workers who had/have COVID but did not necessarily catch it at Amazon. That seems lower than I would expect, and that's what the below quotes also say. > In a blog post, the company said it did a "thorough analysis of data on all 1,372,000 Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the US employed at any time from March 1 to September 19, 2020." > Amazon said it then compared its case rates to the general population during the same period, using reporting from Johns Hopkins University. It claimed that the number of its employees that tested, or were presumed to be, positive was 42% lower than expected based by that comparison. Amazon had previously mentioned that they made numerous process changes in warehouses to respond to COVID-19 (https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-actions-to-help-employees-communities-and-customers-affected-by-covid-19 https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-actions-to...) but what I thought was really cool was the ML camera system they built to help workers maintain distance from each other (https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/06/16/amazon-is-using-an-ai-camera-system-to-monitor-social-distancing-in-its-warehouses/ https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/06/16/amazon-is-using-an-...).