Amazon Care has partnered with SCAN to offer pick-up and deliver COVID-19 testing kits in the Seattle area. In doing this, SCAN hopes to learn more about the demographics affected by the virus in order to project how long this pandemic may last. During this partnership, Amazon Care will handle the logistics while SCAN will analyze each test. If a participant tests positive, a health care worker will contact them.
“Responding to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 crisis must be a community effort and requires support from both the private and public sectors,” Amazon Care Director Kristen Helton told CNBC.
“We are grateful to be surrounded by a strong community of public health, global health and academic leaders and are eager to leverage Amazon Care’s infrastructure and logistics capabilities to support this local effort,” she added.
As of Monday night, 95 people in Washington have died from the virus and 2,000 have been diagnosed. A large percentage of these cases have come from Kings County, where Seattle is located. Nationwide, the CDC has reported 400 deaths related to the virus and 33,404 confirmed cases.
