Amazon revealed the extent to which its workforce had been impacted by the pandemic.

Since the pandemic began, ecommerce giant Amazon has become a vital service for those remaining in their homes in the United States and elsewhere. In-person retail shopping, now questionable in terms of safety, has been supplanted by Amazon Prime’s next-day delivery and massive catalog. However, while the pandemic has proven to be a boon to Amazon’s business model, the massive company has not weathered it completely unscathed.

In a public release on their company blog yesterday, Amazon revealed that approximately 19,816 of their employees, both in Amazon warehouses and Whole Foods storefronts, have tested positive for coronavirus since the pandemic started in March.

According to Amazon’s post, this statistic was obtained through a “thorough analysis of data on all 1,372,000 Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the US employed at any time from March 1 to September 19, 2020.” Compared to the general populace, as recorded by John Hopkins University, the number of Amazon employees that have tested positive is approximately 42% lower than projected.

Amazon has been reluctant to share infection statistics over the last several months, even after it became public knowledge that outbreaks were occurring within their warehouses. Amazon has stressed that they have improved the sanitation protocols in their warehouses, enacting at least 150 nondescript “process changes.” In an effort to better assess the health and safety of Amazon employees, multiple attorneys have demanded a state-by-state breakdown of the working conditions in Amazon warehouses and Whole Foods storefronts. So far, these requests have gone unanswered.

As Amazon prepares for its yearly Prime Day sales event on October 13, it will be hiring an additional 100,000 employees across its service network. This is on top of the 100,000 hired to accommodate the demand increase in March, and the 75,000 that followed in April.