In the email, he reportedly said that based on all the evidence he had seen about COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, “suggests that this is *not* within the top 100 health risks in the United States.” The Tesla CEO had earlier made a coronavirus-related tweet in which he had said: “The coronavirus panic is dumb.” SpaceX employees are currently working at the company’s California headquarters at Hawthorne and Tesla offices and factories have remained open, as per the BuzzFeed report.
Coronavirus has spread to more than 100 countries in the world, with over 1 million people testing positive for the infection. There have been over 4,000 deaths worldwide and travel, airline and tourism industries have taken a massive hit. Many organisations and companies across the world have advised their employees to work from home as a precautionary measure. Travel to countries like China, South Korea, Iran and Italy is strictly being discouraged on account of a high chance of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in these countries. The World Health Organisation recently declared the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic.