{"id":24417,"date":"2020-05-05T17:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24417"},"modified":"2020-05-05T17:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:07:35","slug":"amazon-worker-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24417","title":{"rendered":"AMAZON WORKER DIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon worker at a fulfillment facility in Staten Island has died of COVID-19, a spokesperson for the company confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The online retail giant is currently in the process of notifying workers at the warehouse and has been in touch with the employee&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>The worker was last on site on April 5 and was diagnosed with the disease caused by the coronavirus on April 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply saddened by the loss of an associate at our site in Staten Island, NY,&#8221; Amazon spokesperson Kirsten Kish said in a statement to The Hill. &#8220;His family and loved ones are in our thoughts, and we are supporting his fellow colleagues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Verge first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hcmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpmhvvqq_sjbbmmvrvtbmllsbpjsm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hcmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpmhvvqq_sjbbmmvrvtbmllsbpjsm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1588806045998000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFdEWzs0pNUjSFxe59_AHbKUoA4FA\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on the death.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third known death of an Amazon worker from COVID-19. A worker at a Hawthorne, California, facility died on March 31, and another from a Tracy, California, warehouse died April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at the Staten Island facility, known as JFK8, were some of the first to protest Amazon&#8217;s response to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the facilities workers walked out in late March after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon worker at a fulfillment&#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-24417","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\/24417","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=24417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24418,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417\/revisions\/24418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}