Elon Musk during his participation in an episode of the “Sway” podcast presented by Kara Swunsher of The New York Times stated that he and his family will not receive a Covid-19 vaccine once it becomes available. Musk during his conversation with Kara Swisher stated that he has no risk of contracting Covid as well as his children words that earned swisher to answer that there is no evidence that he and his family are less susceptible to the virus, given that covid-19 disease has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, as well as more than 7 million contagions.
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On the other hand, Swisher also questioned Musk’s responses to the confinement measures imposed by the world’s governments which last April Tesla’s president regarded them as “fascist and “outrageous” as they violated freedom and the economy. In addition to this, numerous statements made by Musk are added, one of the most questioned being last March because he stated that children were “essentially immune” to the virus.
“Children are essentially immune, but the elderly with existing conditions are vulnerable. Family gatherings with close contact between children and grandparents are probably the riskiests,” Musk wrote on Twitter.
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Despite the situations that have been observed since the beginning of the pandemic around the world. Musk has always been very realistic about the pandemic situation and its effects from mentioning that “panic will cause more harm than the virus” and even support treatment with hydroxychloroquine, a medicine to treat malaria.
