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'I have Covid again': Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Musk has a history of under-estimating the novel coronavirus and balking at health officials
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter on Monday that he has Covid.
The announcement comes after Tesla’s factory in Shanghai faced regional Covid restrictions that reportedly require it to suspend production for four days until around April 1. China is shutting down the city in two phases to control a Covid-19 outbreak.
Tesla also suspended production in Shanghai for two days earlier in March after officials implemented Covid health orders.
Musk wrote on Monday, “Covid-19 is the virus of Theseus. How many gene changes before it’s not Covid-19 anymore? I supposedly have it again (sigh), but almost no symptoms.” Musk provided no explanation as to how he was tested, or why he had any reason to doubt the results.
Musk has a history of under-estimating the novel coronavirus and balking at health officials.
In February 2020, as Covid began to impact the U.S., Musk wrongly estimated that the virus would be gone by April 2020. By November 2020, he announced that he had tested positive for Covid.
When Covid numbers were rising in California, in April 2020, Musk called health restrictions “fascist” in an expletive-laden rant during a company earnings call. The CEO kept his company’s Fremont, California plant operating despite health orders but faced no repercussions from the state or Alameda County.
SOURCE: CNBC