2022年11月19日

總部位於斯普林代爾的泰森食品公司周五證實，該公司不再要求員工接種covid-19疫苗。該公司在一份聲明中表示，盡管covid-19仍然是一個健康問題，但它不再像15個月前泰森食品公司決定要求接種疫苗時那樣構成威脅。該公司指出，嚴重感染已經顯著減少，許多資源可用來對抗病毒，包括檢測、增強劑和改進的治療方法。泰森食品公司在疫苗一上市就開始鼓勵工人接種疫苗，但在2021年8月1日，當covid-19的omicron變種席卷全國時，強製要求接種疫苗。工人們被要求在當年11月1日前接種疫苗。該公司周五指出，在某些情況下，工廠仍然需要戴口罩;仍將實施COVID-19症狀自我篩查;將繼續對有COVID-19症狀的工人進行檢測;此外，該公司還鼓勵減肥，並將為員工提供減肥診所。電動汽車製造商Canoo周五表示，已開始生產汽車。該公司在本頓維爾設有業務，並計劃將總部設在本頓維爾。 In a Friday Facebook post, Canoo said the company had reached the start-of-production milestone Thursday. Tony Aquila, an investor, chairman and CEO at Canoo, had announced the Nov. 17 goal earlier this month during a conference call to discuss earnings. The first 15 vehicles are earmarked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Walmart and other strategic partners, the company said in the post. Production includes the company's Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle and Lifestyle Vehicle. During the conference call, Aquila said Canoo had more than $2 billion in its order pipeline for companies including Walmart, Utah-based van provider Kingbee and Los Angeles-based Zeeba. Initial manufacturing of the vehicles is being done by a third party. In the Friday post, Canoo said it will shift production during the first half of 2023 to its new Oklahoma City manufacturing location announced earlier this month. -- John Magsam