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Billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday that he “mostly” has a moderate case of Covid-19, although he “cast doubt on the accuracy of the tests,” announcing different results from various laboratories.
He did not mention any results of PCR tests, which are usually performed in labs and are more accurate than rapid tests.
Kasturi, No. Chief Executive Officer Tesla Inc. And Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said its symptoms are “symptoms of a common cold.” He first revealed on Twitter on Friday that he had received inconclusive results using coronavirus tests. Becton, Dickinson and c. No rapid antigen testing, yielding two negative and two positive results.
Kasturi, 49, has raised suspicions about Covid-19, questioned the virality of the disease and claimed the death toll had been overstated. In a tweet on Saturday, he said “coronavirus is a type of cold,” largely minimizing its risks. U.S. In, this is the disease More than 10.8 million people became infected and more than 245,000 were killed after a record 190,059 cases were added on Friday.
In March, Musk predicted that U.S. By April there will be close to zero new cases and no bones about it His frustration with the shutdown order temporarily halted Tesla’s auto plant in Fremont, California.
Rapid tests have been used more widely in the fight against COPID-19, but these tests are also known to be less accurate than the more common, gold-standard polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests.
– Assisted by Dana Hull, and Emma Court
(Updates to add PCR tests are performed in Labs in the second paragraph.)
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