O Brazilian Ministry of Health launched an app that offers information about COVID-19. Now, Elon Musk said that people don't need to be terrified by the outbreak and that the panic caused makes no sense. 2vc2e
According to the creator of Tesla, the “panic with coronavirus and stupid“. Most of Musk's followers agreed with the publication on Twitter. One of his followers even claimed that people should be prepared for pandemics, natural disasters and other events that could ravage society, and that the current panic over the virus outbreak would be meaningless.
The point made by Elon Musk is that mortality is not as high as in other epidemics that ended up causing deaths worldwide, as was the case with SARS, which killed 10% of infected people in the 26 affected countries. Regarding the coronavirus, the rate varies between 2% to 3,5%.
However, large companies in the technology market are concerned about the coronavirus situation. For example, the Apple encouraged work home-office to employees who physically work in Silicon Valley, California. Other companies, like Microsoft e A also made similar decisions.
One of Tesla's factories in China stopped working during January, however, it resumed activity in early February.
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Although a good part of the followers agree with the billionaire, many believe that it is irresponsible to publish such a message to the 31 million profiles that follow him, mainly because the problem has been classified as a "pandemic" through the World Health Organization (OMS).
So far, confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil have increased to 25, with 4 due to local transmission. The states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Alagoas, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and the Federal District have already confirmed cases in several cities. 632 suspects have already been discarded, but there are still another 664 cases for analysis. Most of the suspects are in São Paulo, ing for 176 cases.
Source: USA Today
