The results have been made public in Nature Communications where Elon Musk has been listed as one of the co-authors.

Yahoo News writes that employees were notified via email asking for some to volunteer in an antibody study for COVID. Afterward, 4,300 signed up to give monthly blood samples to test them for antibodies.

Elon Musk along with Anil Menon, SpaceX’s medical executive, gathered different doctors and academics to design the study.

The study features data from April to June. But the test is still ongoing. They wanted to test if there are a number of antibodies that would provide immunity. They also worked to try to better understand COVID-19.

They found that people that had mild COVID-19 symptoms had you were antibodies which means that they most likely do not have long-term immunity and could get infected with COVID again. They further back this up by saying that recent tests have shown that workers have been reinfected. Those workers had a low number of antibodies in their system.

Dr. Alter backed the findings up by saying, “People can have antibodies, but it doesn’t mean they are going to be immune,” Dr. Galit Alter, one of the study’s co-authors and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told the Journal. “The good news is most of the vaccines induce [antibody] levels way higher than these levels.”

92% of the employees involved in the study were male with an average age of 31. The larger sample they used was 84.3% male with 32 as the average age. Out of 4,300 of the employees, 120 of them had tested positive and their blood tested to see how many antibodies they produced. 61% of them had no symptoms.

Earlier this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom enforced the new Covid-19 “Limited Stay at Home Orders”. In doing so, the state deemed Tesla employees ‘essential workers’. This designation allows Tesla’s Fremont, California plant to continue its operations in accordance with prior Covid-19 safety plans.

On Saturday, the new Limited Stay at Home Orders will impact the vast majority of Californians — as the new orders come with a curfew. Asking all nonessential work and gatherings to be halted between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

When questioned about the impact of the curfew on Tesla’s employees, the CPHD wrote:

“The Limited Stay at Home Order does not apply to these employees as they are deemed essential workers – manufacturing is listed as an essential workforce. You can find more here. The Critical Manufacturing Sector identifies several industries to serve as the core of the sector including Transportation Equipment Manufacturing Products. While operating, this sector must follow industry guidance for manufacturing.”

County officials in Alameda County, where Fremont is located, could double up on the safety guidelines that the state has put in place — though they have not done so yet. An Alameda County Public Health Department spokesperson has declined to answer any questions about Tesla, and has since released a press statement.

In the statement the spokesperson shared that Alameda County has faced a rapid surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations — putting the county in California’s “purple tier”. The “purple tier” is the state’s most restrictive level in the “reopening framework”. As of midnight November 18, “all activities and sectors must conform to the state’s requirements for counties in the Purple Tier.” The Alameda County Public Health department also stated: “As the situation develops, we may need to further restrict activities to slow the spread of the virus.”

In July, the California Department of Public Health issued guidance for manufacturing industries “to support a safer lower risk environment for workers.” The guidance implemented for workers in factory environments has since, not been updated with any new requirements or safety precautions.

Alameda County’s health authority advised Tesla to trim their operations to bare minimum earlier in the year when the novel coronavirus emerged in California. Asking that they make the workplace an acceptable environment to protect their factory workers. Tesla and CEO Elon Musk chose to go against the grain and continued what appeared to be normal operations — without facing repercussions.

And since that time, Musk has ‘insulted’ California’s business environment.

On October 30, 2020, Musk tweeted:

I’ve spent more than half my life in California & love the state. But, frankly, I think CA has the winning-for-too-long problem.

Like a sports team with many championships, it is increasingly difficult to avoid complacency & a sense of entitlement.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2020

Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020

When asked if he had any symptoms of COVID-19, he replied that he has been experiencing typical cold symptoms.

Symptoms of a typical cold. Nothing unusual so far.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020

COVID-19 cases have spiked following the U.S. presidential election. The record of Coronavirus cases in the United States was broken yesterday. According to The Washington Post, 153,000 new cases were reported and 66,000 people were hospitalized.

This is all that is known so far. Hopefully, Elon Musk or someone in his close circle will report if he is having more symptoms or if his already existing symptoms worsen. Until we know more information, we hope that he feels better soon. Whether or not he has COVID-19 is uncertain, but it’s best that we wait.

A twitter user asked Musk what he thought about the RNA vaccine approach. Elon responded that he thinks synthetic RNA and DNA has amazing potential and that by using these processes it would make solutions to diseases a software problem. He then announced that Tesla is building RNA microfactories for CureVac and possibly others.

Tesla, as a side project, is building RNA microfactories for CureVac & possibly others

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 2, 2020

According to Reuters, CureVac was originally from Tuebingen, since then it has been backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. CureVac is an unlisted German company that has claimed that they are making portable automated mRNA production units or printers. These printers are designed to be able to be shipped remotely and create potential vaccines and other mRNA therapies by feeding them formulas. If it is found to have a vaccine for COVID-19 that is approved, production sites can produce millions of doses. This is done easily because mRNA molecules are single stranded and they can be produced in a simple process that does not need living cells that are genetically modified.

This is not the first time Tesla has helped the fight against COVID-19. CNN Business reported Elon Musk’s claim that Tesla delivered more than 1,000 ventilators to California hospitals when COVID cases were skyrocketing.

What the public knows about this project is very little, but the project’s impact is much bigger. These micro factories that have the ability to pump out potential vaccines for diseases would make the process of distribution much faster. If Tesla and CureVac were able to accomplish the goal of creating and replicating the vaccine in mass numbers, it would be an amazing accomplishment and it would help bring the world closer to what it used to be before the global pandemic.