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- Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Thursday night that he had “symptoms of a typical cold” and had tested positive for Covid-19 twice and negative twice.
- “Something extremely false is happening. It was tested for covid four times today,” Musk tweeted. “Two tests were negative, two were positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid BD antigen test.”
- The tech CEO did not elaborate on his condition via Twitter, and it was not immediately clear whether he had actually contracted the disease caused by the novel coronavirus after the four different test results.
- “If it’s happening to me, it’s happening to others,” he tweeted. “They are running PCR tests on me in separate labs. The results will take about 24 hours.”
- Musk has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the coronavirus threat and has, on occasion, spread misinformation about Covid-19.
- He said in a September interview on the “Sway” podcast that he would not receive the Covid-19 vaccine for himself or his family after it was released because “I was not at risk for Covid, nor my children.”
- “Essentially, the right thing to do would be not to have done a nationwide lockdown, but I think anyone who is at risk should be quarantined until the storm passes,” Musk said during the podcast episode.
- “There is no evidence that Musk or his family are less susceptible to the highly contagious virus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans of all ages,” reported Business Insider’s Avery Hartmans.
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