{"id":23776,"date":"2020-04-16T17:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23776"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:04:20","slug":"bezos-says-mass-testing-needed-to-reopen-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23776","title":{"rendered":"Bezos says mass testing needed to reopen economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that mass coronavirus testing on a global scale will be needed to &#8220;get the economy back up and running&#8221; amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this to work, we as a society would need vastly more testing capacity than is currently available,&#8221; Bezos wrote in his yearly letter to shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If every person could be tested regularly, it would make a huge difference in how we fight this virus. Those who test positive could be quarantined and cared for, and everyone who tests negative could re-enter the economy with confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bezos&#8217;s letter to shareholders also included steps Amazon has taken in response the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The online retail giant has promised to provide face masks and daily temperature checks for warehouse workers, delivery drivers and Whole Foods employees.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the measures, 70 Amazon facilities have had at least one employee test positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23777,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776\/revisions\/23777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}