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After reopening in defiance of Health Department orders last May, Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., Plant recorded 450 cases of COVID-19 through December 2020, new data from PlainSite’s legal shows website (via The Washington Post).
Last March, public health officials in Alameda County, where the Fremont plant is located, prevented all businesses except “essential” from remaining open as coronavirus cases increased across the country . Tesla fought the order but ultimately closed the plant on March 23. But a few days later, Tesla restarted production at the Fremont plant, even though it was in violation of public health order. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter at the time that he planned to be in the factory with Fremont workers and provoked local officials to arrest him.
Tesla’s plan to reopen was then approved, although it was already open in defiance of March orders. Musk, a vocal critic of last year’s coronavirus shelter-in-place orders, threatened to move the Fremont plant out of California. Tesla filed a lawsuit against Alameda County over the shutdown order on May 9 last year, but dropped the lawsuit less than two weeks later.
The post office reports that documents obtained by PlainSite show that Tesla had about a dozen reports of COVID-19 cases in May 2020 and that the numbers continued to rise until December, a month that saw 125 new cases of the virus at the factory. Tesla employs around 10,000 people at the Fremont plant.
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