Cases containing doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are loaded into a van from a secure cold storage unit in central England. Clark said Amazon is ‘prepared to leverage our operations, information technology and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s vaccination efforts’. — AFP
Amazon.com Inc is offering to help the Biden administration accelerate the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, including to its own employees.
In a letter dated Jan 20, Dave Clark, the incoming chief executive officer of Amazon’s retail unit, offered his congratulations to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. He reiterated a request Amazon made to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month asking that frontline workers among the company’s more than 800,000 US employees receive vaccines at the “earliest appropriate time”.
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