Elon Musk completely changed his attitude to Covid-19, asserting that Tesla would 'produce ventilators if there is a shortage'.

"It's silly to panic because of the corona virus , " which was a line that Elon Musk posted on Twitter 10 days ago, and received so many mixed opinions among hundreds of thousands of comments.

People think the tech billionaire is underestimating the danger of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Elon Musk then continued to email SpaceX employees and said that the new corona virus was not ominous. He also operated a Tesla factory in Fremont, California, despite a "shelter in place" order issued by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

This led a Twitter user to ask whether Elon Musk was planning to use his factory to produce ventilators during the Covid-19 epidemic.

For some Covid-19 patients with severe respiratory distress, a ventilator is a decisive device for their survival. Unfortunately, with a huge number of patients still increasing exponentially, the supply of ventilators in the US and many countries around the world could be exhausted.

" We will build a ventilator if there is a shortage , " Musk replied in a comment tweet. And this statement was immediately captured by the editor of FiveThentyEight, Nate Silver. He said the ventilator is currently lacking, and asked Musk: "How many are you planning to make?"

In response to this sudden question, it seems that Musk had to get around a bit: " Tesla makes cars with sophisticated HVAC systems. SpaceX makes spacecraft with systems that support "The breathing machine is not difficult at all, but it cannot be manufactured immediately. What hospital are you saying is lacking a ventilator?"

No need to bother with Nate Silver's reply, other Twitter accounts told Musk a series of information about the hospital that lacked equipment in Italy and in the United States.

"I just received a message from a doctor who works in the intensive care unit at a small hospital in New York: They have officially finished their ventilators and are now letting two Covid patients breathe the same device ", Dr. Peter Attia, a famous scientist who studies human longevity responded.

Although Elon Musk has previously advised people not to take some of his tweets seriously, in some cases, exchanging with other Twitter users still makes Musk good ideas. vow meaning.

Last year, for example, he donated a series of water purification systems and laptops to high schools in Flint, an area affected by the lead-water crisis in the United States.

Elon Musk also seems to be changing his attitude to Covid-19, after the World Health Organization officially considered it a global pandemic. The most up-to-date information from the Tesla factory in Fremont shows that they have reduced operating capacity, allowing a number of employees to take shelter orders at home.

There are currently only about 2,500 workers here, most of whom are essential in the manufacturing, service, delivery and testing areas.

Tesla explained the action for its employees because they are receiving a lot of information that overlaps between levels of US government.

" We have yet to receive a final word from the city, county, state and federal governments regarding the status of our operations. We are seeing conflicting guidelines between other levels." each other ".

Refer to Engadget