Musk, who now runs Tesla Inc and SpaceX, initially downplayed the virality of the coronavirus and fatality rates related to Covid-19. He called panic over the illness 'dumb' and predicted that overreaction would do more harm than the disease itself before starting to help by donating masks to hospital workers and buying ventilators. — AFP
A fellow co-founder of PayPal Holdings Inc said Elon Musk and others probably regret comments they made dismissing the seriousness of the novel coronavirus, adding that he’s hopeful the billionaire will now help in the relief effort.
"Everyone who has made fun of this thing as a tougher flu or a silly problem that is going to go away with the first ray of sunshine is probably slightly embarrassed by those comments,” Max Levchin, who at 23 co-founded a company that would eventually become PayPal, said Monday on Bloomberg Television. "That excludes no one.”
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