The number of second-dose vaccines administered at the Pantex Plant in Texas and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee doubled this week with over 4,000 employees fully vaccinated across both sites, as the number of jabs continues to increase across the rest of the nuclear security enterprise,
NNSA’s Washington headquarters was tracking 232 active positive cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, the spokesperson said. The increase in that figure, which was 162 last week, was due to new case data from “certain sites” that had been incorporated into the agency’s count, the spokesperson said.
Due to revised Department of Energy guidelines, the agency is only reporting confirmed active cases and any additional deaths, an agency spokesperson said. As of April 16, there had been 5,306 confirmed positive cases at the agency. Of those cases, 16 were fatal.
As of Friday, more than 900 people at Pantex and Y-12 — including DOE federal employees — had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine this week. That’s down about about 2,200 compared to a week ago, according to a spokesperson for Consolidated Nuclear Security, which manages both sites. .
About 4,200 employees across the two sites had received a second dose at deadline, said the spokesperson, up about 2,000, compared with last week. Two of the three vaccines available in the U.S. require two doses.
Of those total doses, about 1,700 were administered at Pantex, up 100 compared with last week. 2,500 of the second doses were given out at Y-12. The site started administering second-dose vaccinations April 22, according to the spokesperson.
At Y-12, about 800 employees had received at least a dose at deadline, down some 1,300 from a week ago. Y-12 started administering vaccines on-site March 31, the spokesperson said. The Y-12 figures account for vaccinations administered off-site before the complex was cleared to give out doses inside the fence.
Meanwhile, at the Nevada National Security Site, about 1,900 people had gotten at least one dose while 1,700 had received a second dose, a spokesperson said Thursday in an email. About 50% of people at the site were still teleworking.
National Laboratories Cases
Following are the reported numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases at NNSA nuclear weapons laboratories, along with increases relative to the prior week and the number of people vaccinated, as provided Friday by the labs.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
Cases: 328 (+1)
Los Alamos National Laboratory:
A spokesperson for Los Alamos didn’t respond to a request for updated data on new cases by deadline Friday. The following information is current as of April 23.
Cases: 828 (+6. 785 people who got sick had recovered, as of deadline). Los Alamos has started vaccinations, but a spokesperson declined to say how many personnel there had received doses.
Internal tests: 18,281 (+215. A lab spokesperson said Friday these on-site tests have resulted in 259 positive results: which was up by just one, compared with last week).
Teleworking: Roughly 60% of all employees, flat compared with the week of April 16..
Sandia National Laboratories:
In March, Sandia National Laboratories instituted a one-week lag time reporting COVID data to the public because of “a shift in when our numbers are being updated internally,” a spokesperson said.
Here are the most recent numbers available for Sandia at deadline, which were current as of April 29.
Cases: 859 (+19).
Internal tests: 11,782 (+352).
Sandia started vaccinations the week of Jan. 11, the labs network has since given 2,656 people both doses of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine at onsite clinics at its New Mexico and California sites, the labs spokesperson said. That’s 976 more than the 1,680 people that had been vaccinated onsite as of April 9, according to the spokesperson.
Across the labs network 4,415 people had been vaccinated at off-site locations, the spokesperson said. That’s 1,686 more than the 2,797 people that had gotten both jabs at offsite locations between Sandia’s New Mexico and California sites as of April 9.
Teleworking: Roughly 55% of all employees, down 10% compared with April 9.
