Apple Employee in Culver City, California Has Coronavirus

[MacRumors]

An Apple employee who works at Apple's Culver City campus, where its Apple TV+ and Apple Music efforts are headquartered, has tested positive for coronavirus, reports Billboard.

Employees at the Culver City office were notified about the infection on Saturday, but as of today, the campus remains open.

Apple has asked all of its employees with positions that allow them to work from home to do so in an effort to cut down on the spread of the coronavirus, but there are some employees who are not able to work remotely.

A recent report suggested that Apple's guidelines around product secrecy have made it difficult for some software developers working on sensitive products to bring their work home, as they are prevented from accessing important internal systems outside of Apple's campus.

This has led to many engineers continuing their work at Apple's campuses, and there are likely other employees in similar situations at other Apple campuses and offices worldwide, such as the Culver City location.

Culver City is known as a headquarters for movie and television production, and many major studios are located in the area. Apple's video content team works out of its Culver City offices, as does its Apple Music team.

Last week, an Apple employee who worked at a Santa Monica Apple Store contracted coronavirus, and Apple has since shut down all of its retail locations for the next two weeks.

News today also suggests that Apple CEO Tim Cook and iTunes chief Eddy Cue may have been exposed to coronavirus as Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge has been hospitalized after falling ill with the infection. Cook and Cue attended a birthday party for Grainge on February 29, but it's not clear if Grainge had the coronavirus at that time.

Since the virus takes two to 14 days on average to infect after exposure, Cook and Cue are likely safe if no symptoms have appeared at this point, though there are reports of a few outlying incubation times that exceed two weeks.

Article Link: Apple Employee in Culver City, California Has Coronavirus

 

[justperry]

Most people will get coronavirus, just a matter of time, I understand the importance of reporting this but eventually there will be lots of them, reporting on each of them will be too much by then.

 

[jayducharme]

You're probably correct. The way this spreads is pretty insidious. The voluntary lockdown may help, but the proverbial cat's already out of the bag. There are some long months ahead....

 

[coolfactor]

Most people will get coronavirus, just a matter of time, I understand the importance of reporting this but eventually there will be lots of them, reporting on each of them will be too much by then.

I understand your point, but they just using that as a lead-in to the larger story about how Apple is handling the situation. Keeping the headlines fresh since it's such a hot topic right now.

Just 3 months ago, none of us would have ever suspected that this was coming. Crazy how fast it developed and spread around the world.

 

[jonnyb098]

Most people will get coronavirus, just a matter of time, I understand the importance of reporting this but eventually there will be lots of them, reporting on each of them will be too much by then.

50 million have gotten the seasonal flu so far as well...... are we going to report each one of those?

Wonder how many thousands of apple employees have called in sick in the last 6 months...

 

[tomtendo]

50 million have gotten the seasonal flu so far as well...... are we going to report each one of those?

Wonder how many thousands of apple employees have called in sick in the last 6 months...

No it doesn't fit most scare tactic narratives. A large majority of this is politics. Sad, but true. Whether that be from China creating a virus for population control, or to actually wanting to destroy world economies(really the USA) or our very own politics in the US. 2009 we had a similar virus albeit to early to tell to compare with the H1N1 swine flu, but we didn't stop many of which we're doing today.

This is about a few things since 98%+ will survive with a large of that number not even knowing that they had it. Maintaining hospital capacity and an upcoming election.

 

[stefanovago]

not a big deal, even my dad has COVID...

 

[Gutwrench]

Well isn’t this is a scoop?

Coronavirus is not leprosy nor it is a death sentence so why treat it as it is?

The vast majority of Americans will be exposed at some point. Exercise reasonable precautions.

If you are over 65 or have a significant preexisting condition exercise heightened precautions.

 

[sofila]

Most people will get coronavirus, just a matter of time, I understand the importance of reporting this but eventually there will be lots of them, reporting on each of them will be too much by then.

Just a matter of time and even Covid-19 related deaths count will become daily routine

 

[44267547]

I don’t think it’s just about the demographic of who catches it [Geriatric/adolescents/those with heart conditions obviously are at higher risk], but more or less, how quickly it spreads depending where you are, it’s at a fairly alarming rate.

But nor do I think this article necessarily warrants to have a front page title just because an ‘Apple employee’ contracted it. Even though it’s Apple ‘related’ news, it seems like it’s kind of grasping for something that....well...isn’t really shocking.

 

[Chloros]

50 million have gotten the seasonal flu so far as well...... are we going to report each one of those?

Wonder how many thousands of apple employees have called in sick in the last 6 months...

When people keep bringing the seasonal flu to the conversation shows the level of ignorance we face.

 

[cocky jeremy]

50 million have gotten the seasonal flu so far as well...... are we going to report each one of those?

Wonder how many thousands of apple employees have called in sick in the last 6 months...

Apple employee just went to the bathroom. More to come at 5!

 

[jonnyb098]

When people keep bringing the seasonal flu to the conversation shows the level of ignorance we face.

Funny if we treated all sorts of things like homicides or gun violence like the coronavirus there would be even more pandemonium.....except we have.....and there isn't.....but a flu comes along that kills a few extra old people and THE WORLD IS ENDING WE ARE ALL GONNNA DIEEEEEEEEE!

Cant wait to see all the survival numbers come out to show just how massively obnoxiously overblown this all has been.

Im not advocating people do whatever they want. Everyone needs to be diligent as the SHOULD BE DURING EVERY FLU SEASON.

But it takes nearly a government lockdown for people to learn what they should have been taught as 4 years olds....wash your hands and cover your mouth and stay home when sick.

People who have plenty of sick time still come to work so that they "dont get too far behind" and then end up infecting half the office which puts EVERYONE behind.

Humans.....

 

[Windoes]

soon enough

 

[insoft.uk]

Making life more entertaining soon they will be official website with a virus counter and sites for placing bets how many will be infected this week then YouTube were people share their life with the virus and what’s the first thing they be doing when back out in the world probably become infected again

 

[KillerTree]

Funny if we treated all sorts of things like homicides or gun violence like the coronavirus there would be even more pandemonium.....except we have.....and there isn't.....but a flu comes along that kills a few extra old people and THE WORLD IS ENDING WE ARE ALL GONNNA DIEEEEEEEEE!

Cant wait to see all the survival numbers come out to show just how massively obnoxiously overblown this all has been.

Im not advocating people do whatever they want. Everyone needs to be diligent as the SHOULD BE DURING EVERY FLU SEASON.

But it takes nearly a government lockdown for people to learn what they should have been taught as 4 years olds....wash your hands and cover your mouth and stay home when sick.

People who have plenty of sick time still come to work so that they "dont get too far behind" and then end up infecting half the office which puts EVERYONE behind.

Humans.....

Thoughts like this are literally going to be responsible for more deaths. You have blood on your hands.
>2% death rate and a 14 day incubation period where you show no symptoms but you can spread it is extremely dangerous and nothing like the seasonal flu.
We need to slow down the spread so our hospitals have enough beds and respirators for the people with serious symptoms.

 

[ritmomundo]

On a lighter note... At first I thought, dang, the Apple logo on that store is huge.

 

[Hirakata]

>2% death rate and a 14 day incubation period where you show no symptoms but you can spread it is extremely dangerous and nothing like the seasonal flu.

In the US, there have been 4294 total cases with 75 deaths. That's a 1.7% death rate.

 

[Plutonius]

Most people will get coronavirus, just a matter of time, I understand the importance of reporting this but eventually there will be lots of them, reporting on each of them will be too much by then.

It should fade away during the summer but I expect it will be back in the winter cold / flu season.

I'm wondering how much time will pass before it's ignored like the flu ?

 

[ritmomundo]

In the US, there have been 4294 total cases with 75 deaths. That's a 1.7% death rate.

Since it's still ongoing, you don't know how many of those 4294 that haven't recovered will die. It will most definitely be higher than 1.7%.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Funny if we treated all sorts of things like homicides or gun violence like the coronavirus there would be even more pandemonium.....except we have.....and there isn't.....but a flu comes along that kills a few extra old people and THE WORLD IS ENDING WE ARE ALL GONNNA DIEEEEEEEEE!

Cant wait to see all the survival numbers come out to show just how massively obnoxiously overblown this all has been.

Im not advocating people do whatever they want. Everyone needs to be diligent as the SHOULD BE DURING EVERY FLU SEASON.

But it takes nearly a government lockdown for people to learn what they should have been taught as 4 years olds....wash your hands and cover your mouth and stay home when sick.

People who have plenty of sick time still come to work so that they "dont get too far behind" and then end up infecting half the office which puts EVERYONE behind.

Humans.....

I could not have said it any better mate. Look, this is serious but so is the Flu. However, the real danger Covid 19 is potentially creating, is a Global Depression. Gov'ts around the world are shutting down their economies. Businesses need to make money to stay in business and workers need to make money to pay their bills or they could find themselves out on the street and their vehicles repossessed. Because of the fear and hysteria people are buying 6-8 month supply of toilet paper, buying up all the bread, water, tinned and dry food. It's so bad at Walmart that Supercenters in my area are now closing at 11pm and reopening at 6am because they "can't" stock the selves with all the "Panic Buying".

 

[Hirakata]

Since it's still ongoing, you don't know how many of those 4294 that haven't recovered will die. It will most definitely be higher than 1.7%.

There are 4146 active cases. 4134 are mild and 12 are serious or critical.

 

[ct2k7]

I am not sure how I feel about this article: is it newsworthy? People are going to get infected. I feel sorry for the employee who now has an article dedicated to them, when they need support.

 

[Plutonius]

In the US, there have been 4294 total cases with 75 deaths. That's a 1.7% death rate.

Almost all the deaths have been older people with existing conditions (i.e. if you are < 70 without medical issues, the death rate is very low).

Also, I surmise that the number of cases is much higher then what is reported. Some people show no symptoms or very minor symptoms (i.e. they are not identified). This would make the death rate even much lower than the 1.7% you posted.

 

[alexandr]

Making life more entertaining soon they will be official website with a virus counter and sites for placing bets how many will be infected this week then YouTube were people share their life with the virus and what’s the first thing they be doing when back out in the world probably become infected again

there already is a counter website btw