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What lead to Amazon's biggest coronavirus outbreak

caption: Some Amazon warehouse workers in New York's Staten Island walked off their jobs on Monday, demanding the company shut the facility for cleaning after several confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
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Some Amazon warehouse workers in New York's Staten Island walked off their jobs on Monday, demanding the company shut the facility for cleaning after several confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
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Many workplaces are only as good as their managers. But the stakes skyrocket when your employer is Amazon, and the question is enforcement of social distancing rules in a crowded warehouse during a pandemic.

The New York Times’ Karen Weise tells Record host Bill Radke about how an Amazon warehouse in the Poconos that became the largest cluster in the tech giant’s sprawling empire.

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