Elon Musk reportedly told SpaceX employees they have a much higher chance of dying in a car crash than from the coronavirus
Elon Musk told his SpaceX employees in an email Friday that their risk of dying from COVID-19 is way lower than it is from being killed in a car accident,"As a basis for comparison, the risk of death from C19 is *vastly* less than the risk of death from driving your car home," Musk wrote, adding that the evidence he's seen about the severity of the outbreak "suggests that this is *not* within the top 100 health risks in the United States," according to Buzzfeed.
This isn't the first time Musk, who's the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, has weighed in on the topic. Last week,Musk's comments run counter to what most medical experts are saying, however. A panel of experts at the University of California, San Francisco, predicted this week that betweenwithin the next 18 months. An internist in attendance, estimated from that range that up to 1.5 million could die, a number he said the panelists did not dispute.
Musk advised SpaceX employees in the email to stay home if they felt sick, but also cited a variety of factors that he believed indicated that the virus' spread had been overstated.to stay home if they felt sick or had been in contact with someone with the virus, according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider.
Musk's comments came the same day President Trump, after weeks of downplaying the coronavirus outbreak himself,
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