Elon Musk Tesla & Coronavirus Ventilator Drama & Delays Explained
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From seemingly denying the coronavirus was a problem, to possibly supplying questionable equipment, Elon Musk and Tesla may have added more drama.
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The situation with Elon Musk and his company, Tesla, helping with coronavirus treatment by donating ventilators is baffling. What people expected would be another case of a manufacturing facility changing its production protocol to make equipment for hospitals has become a mess of Twitter arguments, confusing reporting, and potentially semantics.
While some countries have gone the route of requiring manufacturing-capable companies to work on helping hospitals, the US has so far left businesses to their own devices. Many have voluntarily stepped up to the challenge, most notably automotive companies Ford and GM. Whether through partnerships with other companies or by having their engineering teams work alongside medical professionals, both companies have publicly announced plans to mass-produce hundreds of thousands of ventilators starting this month. The logistics of these kinds of transitions are certainly more complicated than anyone outside those meetings realizes, but the logic is simple: adjusting their production plans keeps the economy in motion and, most importantly, helps hospitals save lives. It’s a “no-brainer” which is why Elon Musk’s awkward responses to the pandemic are so weird.
One of the earliest public statements about the pandemic to come from Elon Musk was a tweet during the first month of March reading “The coronavirus panic is dumb.” He followed that up with a sequence of tweets discussing how the virus wasn’t as contagious or deadly as was being reported at the time. This continued, eventually evolving into Musk replying to numerous Twitter comments about the virus with his belief that panic over COVID-19 and doubt about its potential treatment options were a larger threat than the virus itself. According to a Vox article, Elon Musk was still telling Tesla employees they were more likely to die in a car crash than from the coronavirus, and telling SpaceX staff they could stay home if they chose to, even though he would still be at work. This was after California’s shelter-in-place order was issued.
Tesla’s Contribution to the Pandemic Relief Effort
Despite the aforementioned nonsense, things didn’t get complicated until around March 19, when Elon Musk finally shut down Tesla’s manufacturing facilities, announced Tesla “will make ventilators if there’s a shortage”, and then committed to a discussion with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio over helping NY hospitals procure equipment. A few days later, he made another commitment on Twitter, saying Tesla would reopen its New York plant to produce ventilators “as soon as humanly possible”.
That exchange is now starting to bear fruit as de Blasio has publicly thanked Musk for his company’s contributions. The SpaceX founder has also pledged 250,000 N95 masks to areas of the country in need of them, with a large portion going directly to a Seattle scientist working on a coronavirus treatment. In the midst of these donations, though, Elon Musk has mentioned production in Tesla’s factories could take weeks to start, so his plan is to source ventilators from other places. The first round of ventilators, of which approximately 1,200 were delivered over the last few days, has added to the controversy.
Numerous hospitals and reporters indicate that the Tesla-branded devices being sent to hospitals are designed for treating sleep apnea, and wouldn’t viably function as ventilators. There’s no solid word on whether BiPap or CPAP devices can be effective, non-invasive ventilators for coronavirus patients. The fear is that the way standard CPAP masks work can aerosolize the coronavirus, which is how the infamous nursing home near Seattle became ground zero in the US. However, there’s also evidence showing modified CPAP masks are both effective, and efficient since they’re non-invasive and require less time to deploy.
So as it stands, Elon Musk has downplayed the virus, oversold potential treatments, procrastinated on closing his plants, closed them, shipped 250,000 masks, pledged to re-open some plants to build ventilators “as soon as humanly possible”, shipped 1,200 questionable ventilators, and, as of two days ago, offered to ship his “extra FDA-approved ventilators” around the world. Any help is great, but clearly the global pandemic isn’t the only chaotic thing affecting Tesla.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/elon-musk-tesla-coronavirus-ventilator-drama/
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