Active cases of COVID-19 among the National Nuclear Security Administration contractors and civil servants rose by 15 week to week, a spokesperson with the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency said Friday.
That left the agency with a total of 93 active cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at deadline for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor. The agency has tracked 685 total cases since the disease that broke out last year in Wuhan, China, was confirmed to have reached U.S. shores in January.
Of the confirmed National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) cases, 590 people had recovered and two had died, at deadline Friday.
The NNSA does not disclose the overall effect of COVID-19 on its productivity, though the agency typically requires two-week quarantines for anybody who might have been exposed to someone in the workplace who had a confirmed, positive case. Such quarantines can far outnumber positive cases.
This week, there was a nationwide uptick in the rate of new confirmed COVID-19 cases, with the country as a whole registering nearly 34,000 more new infections than it did the week before.
That surge was reflected in a few NNSA host localities, especially at Aiken County, S.C., which includes the Savannah River Site.
Kansas City Mo., home of the Kansas City National Security Campus, also saw new cases spike week over week.
Randall County, Texas, one of the two counties near the Pantex Plant, in Amarillo, Texas, recorded a proportionally large increase in new cases, considering its relatively low population — though neighboring Potter County, Texas, saw no such spike.
National Laboratories Cases
Following are the reported numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases at NNSA nuclear weapons laboratories, and increases relative to the prior week, as reported Friday by the labs.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
Cases: 58 (+1). Livermore is the only lab that does not test its own employees.
Los Alamos National Laboratory:
The lab did not reply to a request for comment by deadline.
Sandia National Laboratories:
Cases: 69 (+3)
Albuquerque: 58 (+3)
Livermore: 11 (+0)
Internal tests: 2,571 (+39. Since August, Sandia had averaged close to 100 new tests each week.)
Teleworking: Roughly 60% of all employees.
Cases in NNSA Host Regions
Following is Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor’s weekly digest of confirmed COVID-19 cases, including fatal cases, in the host cities and counties of NNSA nuclear weapons sites. The figures below are based on cumulative cases recorded since the first confirmed U.S. instance of COVID-19 in January.
Data come from a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and from select states, counties, and cities, where noted.
The Monitor tracks weekly changes, using the latest data available at deadline, which is sometimes current as of the Wednesday or Thursday before publication.
Testing figures represent the number of tests performed, not the number of people tested.
Missouri – Kansas City National Security Campus
Kansas City
Total confirmed cases: 10,909
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 638
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +270
Fatal cases: 123 (+20 from the prior week, 18 more new deaths this week than last).
Missouri, Statewide:
Total cases: 119,561
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 9,834
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: -2,302
Fatal cases: 1,951 (+163 from the prior week, 66 more new deaths this week than last).
Testing Rate: 20,522 tests per 100,000 people (7% more people tested per 100,000 this week than last, 25% more than three weeks ago).
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 1,259,531 (+80,950 from last week; +251,453 in three weeks).
New Mexico – NNSA Albuquerque, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bernalillo County/Albuquerque:
Total confirmed cases: 6,327
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 183
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +51
Fatal cases: 174 (+5 from the prior week, one fewer new death this week than last).
Los Alamos:
Total confirmed cases: 32
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 3
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +3
Fatal cases: 0 (No change from last week, and no confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the county, to date).
Surrounding Counties, Los Alamos (Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos):
Total confirmed cases: 390/1,329/970/138 – 2,827 for the group
Cumulative week-to-week increase for group: 77
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week, for group: -29
Fatal cases for group: 64 (+2 from the prior week, for group; two fewer new deaths this week than last, for group).
New Mexico, Statewide:
Total cases: 28,224
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 1,025
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +255
Fatal cases: 859 (+23 from the prior week, three more new deaths this week than last).
Testing rate (tests per 100,000 people): Unavailable.
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 878,406 (+41,006 from last week; +107,447 in three weeks).
Tennessee – Y-12 National Security Complex
Anderson County:
Total confirmed cases: 1,153
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 81
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +1
Fatal cases: 12 (+1 from the prior week, same amount of new deaths this week as last week).
Tennessee, Statewide:
Total cases: 187,690
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 9,550
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: -353
Fatal cases: 2,312 (+148 from the prior week, 28 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Testing rate (tests per 100,000 people): Unavailable.
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 2,870,191 (+305,312 from last week; +605,188 in three weeks).
California – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (including Sandia’s California campus)
Alameda County (Including Livermore, Calif.):
Total confirmed cases: 20,951
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 789
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +337
Fatal cases: 397 (+32 from the prior week, 30 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Jaoquin County (near Alameda County):
Total confirmed cases: 20,126
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 425
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: -718
Fatal cases: 437 (+30 from the prior week, six more new deaths this week than last).
California, Statewide:
Total cases: 800,344
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 24,594
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +530
Fatal cases: 15,411 (+594 from the prior week, 120 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Testing rate (tests per 100,000 people): Unavailable.
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 13,952,857 (+872,820 from last week; +2,288,933 in three weeks).
South Carolina – Savannah River Site
Aiken County:
Total confirmed cases: 4,053
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 1,476
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +1,372
Fatal cases: 80 (+2 from the prior week, five fewer new deaths this week than last).
Savannah River Site:
Total confirmed cases: 528
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 16
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: -8
Fatal cases: 1 (no change).
Active cases: 30.
South Carolina, Statewide:
Total cases: 142,707
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 7,261
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: -1,593
Fatal cases: 3,279 (+121 from the prior week, 62 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Testing rate: 23,445 tests per 100,000 people (11% more people tested per 100,000 this week than last; 25% more than three weeks ago).
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 1,207,106 (+119,519 from last week; +237,681 in three weeks).
Texas – Pantex Plant
Potter County:
Total confirmed cases: 4,745
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 249
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: -3
Fatal cases: 63 (+3 from the prior week, two fewer new deaths this week than last).
Randall County:
Total confirmed cases: 2,794
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 226
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +53
Fatal cases: 40 (+4 from the prior week, three more new deaths this week than last).
Texas, Statewide:
Total cases: 747,366
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 45,953
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +13,778
Fatal cases: 15,510 (+679 from the prior week, 72 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Testing rate: 20,212 tests per 100,000 people (10% more people tested per 100,000 this week than last; 15% more than three weeks ago).
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 5,860,833 (+515,657 from last week; +753,330 in three weeks).
Nevada – Nevada National Security Site
Nye County:
Total confirmed cases: 500
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 9
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +3
Fatal cases: 15 (+0 from the prior week, one fewer new death this week than last).
Clark County/Las Vegas:
Total confirmed cases: 65,175
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 1,874
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +444
Fatal cases: 1,360 (+51 from the prior week, 18 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Nevada, Statewide:
Total cases: 77,197
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 2,602
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +553
Fatal cases: 1,564 (+58 from the prior week, 19 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Testing rate: 21,930 tests per 100,000 people (4% more people tested per 100,000 this week than last; 12% more than three weeks ago).
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 675,488 (+22,905 from last week; +70,220 in three weeks).
Nationwide
Total cases: 6,678,382
Cumulative week-to-week increase: 304,023
Growth (+), or decline (-), in new confirmed cases, compared with prior week: +33,973
Fatal cases: 202,886 (+4,940 from the prior week, 1,164 fewer new deaths this week than last).
Cumulative tests performed as of this week: 98,481,026 (+6,934,428 from last week; +18,099,941 in three weeks).
