Amazon wants to run its own coronavirus test on workers
. But testing is still extremely limited. In San Francisco, for instance, less than 1 percent of the population has been tested. It’s unclear if any other employers are working on labs to test their own workers.“Regular testing on a global scale across all industries would both help keep people safe and help get the economy back up and running,” Amazon wrote in its blog post. “But, for this to work, we as a society would need vastly more testing capacity than is currently available.
Amazon began handing warehouse workers face masks this week and is now checking the temperatures of employees as they begin shifts, sending workers home for three days if they register 100.4 degrees or higher. And the company has imposed new rules to make sure workers maintain safe distances from one another.The Washington Post is providing some coronavirus coverage free, including:
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