( Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has actually touched with the CEOs of two coronavirus test makers as it thinks about how to screen its staff and reduce the risk of infection at its storage facilities, according to internal conference notes seen by Reuters.
The chief executives of Abbott Laboratories and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc have informed Amazon they would like to deal with the e-commerce business, though the U.S. federal government is taking up all of their testing capacity at present, the notes said.
The company also talked about whether it could start such tests in at least one warehouse near its Seattle head office, the status of which was uncertain. The nature of Amazon’s discussions with the test makers and the specific assistance they may offer were unclear.
The document individually showed Amazon is looking into the capability to evaluate more than someone at a time for the infection, and it also wants to partner with a medical company in its screening efforts. It did not provide additional information on multi-person