
“Many” of the nearly 250 National Nuclear Security Administration employees confirmed to have caught COVID-19 are believed to have contracted the disease while teleworking, the head of the nuclear-weapons agency said Tuesday. Although Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty did not say how many of the agency’s confirmed cases involved transmissions outside of a nuclear-weapons site, each that did would potentially have prevented many more people from missing work while they quarantined and monitored themselves for symptoms. The Department of Energy's Nuclear Security…