Amazon says almost 20,000 of its frontline workers have had Covid-19.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/01/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus

American employers continue to cut jobs at rates that dwarf the pace of layoffs in past decades, even as the economy crawls forward from the coronavirus-induced recession that began last spring. The Labor Department reported Thursday that 787,000 Americans filed for state unemployment benefits for the first time last week, a declinefrom the previous week's total of 827,000.