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        <title><![CDATA[Elon Musk continues to cast doubt about &#8216;bogus&#8217; COVID-19 test results]]></title>
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						<p>Elon Musk continued to cast doubts on the accuracy of coronavirus tests Friday morning &#8212; just hours after tweeting that he took four rapid tests with conflicting results.</p>
<p>The Tesla CEO and third-richest man in the world had <strong>initially tweeted</strong> Thursday night that &#8220;Something extremely bogus is going on&#8221; regarding Covid-19 testing. &#8220;Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse.&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk said he took the &#8220;rapid antigen test from BD,&#8221; likely referring to medical-supplies giant Becton Dickinson.</p>
<p>&#8220;If it’s happening to me, it’s happening to others,&#8221; he said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1327126667651932161" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">follow-up tweet</a>. &#8220;I’m getting PCR tests from separate labs. Results will take about 24 hours.&#8221;</p>
<p>One Twitter user quipped that &#8220;revenues from tests are likely not bogus &amp; very consistent,&#8221; prompting Musk to reply &#8220;Exactly.&#8221;</p>
<p>Though Musk had initially tweeted that his symptoms were &#8220;nothing unusual&#8221; and those &#8220;of a typical cold,&#8221; he gave more detail Friday morning.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mild sniffles &amp; cough &amp; slight fever past few days,&#8221; he told one Twitter user who asked how he was feeling. &#8220;Right now, no symptoms, although I did take NyQuil.&#8221;</p>
<p>The billionaire chief executive has previously downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic, <strong>calling it “dumb”</strong> in early March. The South Africa-born tech executive also <strong>railed against California&#8217;s coronavirus lockdown</strong> in late spring, calling it “fascist” and saying the government was&nbsp;“forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights.”</p>
<p>In a May appearance on the popular Joe Rogan podcast, Musk called the probability of death from the virus &#8220;extremely low,&#8221; adding that &#8220;it&#8217;s almost like people really wanted a pandemic.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the mortality rate is much less than what say the World Health Organization said it was,&#8221; he said at the time. &#8220;It’s much, much less. It’s like probably at least an order of magnitude less.&#8221;</p>
			
					
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