Amazon said nearly 19,000 employees tested positive for COVID-19, and its stock price fell 0.3%

Recently, Amazon announced that it has conducted COVID-19 monitoring on 1.37 million employees, and 19,800 employees tested positive. Once the news was released, Amazon's stock price fell 0.3% after the market. However, Amazon said that the proportion of employees infected this time was lower than expected. If calculated based on the community infection rate, the number of infected employees would reach 34,000.

Amazon also pointed out that the infection rate among its employees is 40% lower than the infection rate in the U.S. community, which is quite surprising.

Today, there is another huge news about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Trump himself sent a message to the public saying that he and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19 and will actively receive treatment in the coming time. For this reason, the industry was in an uproar. Some people were worried that Trump's infection with COVID-19 would lead to a postponement of the US presidential election; some public opinion also believed that this was a self-torture trick by Trump to kill Biden...

Regardless of whether Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis is true or not, one unavoidable fact is that the COVID-19 situation in the United States is still not optimistic.

Now, large companies like Amazon have revealed that 19,800 employees have been infected with the new coronavirus. Due to the extremely high infection rate of the new coronavirus, it means that the families of these employees are also very likely to be infected, and the number will be several times this number.

Behind the number of infections is the impact on normal production of companies and the impact on the US economic recovery.

Medical experts pointed out that the new coronavirus epidemic is likely to break out in the autumn and winter, and it will continue to be a major test for the United States.

The company said that if the infection rate among Amazon employees was the same as the community infection rate, the total number of cases would be 33,952.