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biggest ever customer savings, small business growth, and community giving helped make the holiday season a little bit brighter
SEATTLE, Dec. 28, 2020 /CNW/ - Throughout this challenging year, Amazon helped safely deliver much-needed smiles around the globe. The company invested billions of dollars to help small and medium-sized businesses continue to grow and to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers including more than $2.5 billion in bonus pay to frontline workers. Amazon also donated millions of items this holiday through product and monetary donations to thousands of charitable organizations worldwide. Amazonians around the world have truly shown what it means to be customer-centric and support our communities this year, said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer. When our customers including healthcare workers on the front lines most needed essential supplies, our teams and partners went above a
by Craig Takeuchi on December 21st, 2020 at 6:30 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Although case counts are generally lower than last week or are decreasing, the death toll remains high. Also, there are five new healthcare outbreaks, and 24 flights and 14 stores with confirmed cases.
Meanwhile, B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry answered questions about the virus mutation in the U.K., as well as about her forthcoming book.
U.K. virus mutation
When asked about the genetic variant of COVID-19 detected in the U.K., Henry said that the virus does mutate but, as she has previously said, “this one mutates relatively slowly”.
by Charlie Smith on December 21st, 2020 at 10:15 AM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Last week, the Straightreported that B.C. s provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, has cowritten a book with her sister, Lynn Henry, that will come out in March.
This news generated a heated debate over social media between her admirers and her detractors. Some alleged that Dr. Henry was profiting from her work as a public servant while others expressed an intense desire to read her story.
The book s title
Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe: Four Weeks That Shaped a Pandemic also grated on some because they felt that it overlooked the horrific second wave of the disease in B.C., which has taken hundreds of lives.