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Amazon Offers to Help President BidenWith Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines.The company has offered to help Joe Bidenachieve his goal of vaccinating 100 millionAmericans in 100 days. .Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark made the offer on Wednesday in a public letter addressed to Biden.We are prepared to leverage ouroperations, information technology,and communications capabilities andexpertise to assist your administration'svaccination efforts, Dave Clark, via statement.Clark went on to say that Amazon couldmake a “meaningful impact” in the “fight againstCOVID-19” thanks to the “scale” of its operations. .In addition to offering help, Clark also calledfor Amazon’s 800,000 U.S. employees to receive COVID-19vaccines “at the earliest appropriate time.” .The essential employees working at Amazonfulfillment centers, AWS data centers, andWhole Foods Market stores across thecountry who cannot work from homeshould receive the COVID-19 vaccine atthe earliest appropriate time. , Dave Clark, via statement.According to Clark, Amazon has an “agreement” with alicensed third-party occupational health care provider.That provider could administer COVID-19 vaccines toAmazon employees on-site at Amazon facilities. .We are committed to assisting youradministration's vaccination efforts aswe work together to protect our employeesand continue to provide essential servicesduring the pandemic, Dave Clark, via statement