The recent outbreak of COVID-19 at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, comes amid a new wave of infections that is increasing in California and across the country fueled by the spread of the omicron variant.
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The recent outbreak of COVID-19 at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, comes amid a new wave of infections that is increasing in California and across the country fueled by the spread of the omicron variant.
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At least 132 employees at the SpaceX rocket plant near Los Angeles have tested positive for COVID-19, making it the site of the largest workplace outbreak in the county recently announced by officials. local health monitoring.
According to a report rescue by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Monday, the company led by Elon Musk now accounts for nearly 30% of workplace COVID-19 cases in the county. The list includes 37 companies with three or more confirmed cases, for a total of 452 cases.
The company’s SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne employs nearly 6,000 people.
The outbreak comes amid a growing new wave of infections in California and around the country that has been fueled by the spread of the omicron variant.
This is the second time that one of Musk’s companies has been at the center of a major workplace COVID-19 infection story. Musk is the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla.
March, washington articles report About 450 of the roughly 10,000 workers at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, tested positive for COVID-19 over seven months in the early days of the pandemic. About 125 of those cases were reported in December 2020.
Musk opposes factory shutdowns, calling them “fascists” and “undemocratic” and defying county orders to stop production, speech, “I’ll be on the line with all the others. If anyone gets caught, I demand that it can only be me.”
In April, SpaceX won a $2.9 billion contract with NASA to build a lunar lander for the astronauts. In September, the aerospace company launched First all-people crew to orbit the earth.
