Disclosure: Amazon employee posting from a throwaway account.
First off, it is extremely sad that a coworker died. Obviously every death is a tragedy and I would not want to diminish that at all.
With that said, I have been reading the same news stories you have and was curious to know how well Amazon is doing at keeping my coworkers in essential roles safe.
This article, and others I've read, cite 2 fatal Covid Cases. I believe the most recent estimates for Amazon's employee count put it at around 1,000,000 employees. To be conservative I'll say 950,000. 2/950000 = 0.0000021053, so 0.0002% of Amazon employees have died that we know of.
70,000 people in the USA have died of Covid from the numbers I see today. Assuming a US population of 330,000,000 we do the math (70000/330000000) and get 0.000212121 or 0.02% of US residents have died of Covid.
This obviously does not weigh things like age range, etc. but I seeing that my fellow employees are 1/100 as likely to have died of Covid as the average US resident makes me feel good about how effective the protective measures are.
First off, it is extremely sad that a coworker died. Obviously every death is a tragedy and I would not want to diminish that at all.
With that said, I have been reading the same news stories you have and was curious to know how well Amazon is doing at keeping my coworkers in essential roles safe.
This article, and others I've read, cite 2 fatal Covid Cases. I believe the most recent estimates for Amazon's employee count put it at around 1,000,000 employees. To be conservative I'll say 950,000. 2/950000 = 0.0000021053, so 0.0002% of Amazon employees have died that we know of.
70,000 people in the USA have died of Covid from the numbers I see today. Assuming a US population of 330,000,000 we do the math (70000/330000000) and get 0.000212121 or 0.02% of US residents have died of Covid.
This obviously does not weigh things like age range, etc. but I seeing that my fellow employees are 1/100 as likely to have died of Covid as the average US resident makes me feel good about how effective the protective measures are.