Billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet Saturday that he “most likely" has a moderate case of Covid-19, though he continued to cast doubt on the accuracy of the tests, citing the “wildly different results from different labs." He didn’t mention any results from a PCR test, which is more accurate than rapid tests. Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said his symptoms are “that of a minor cold." Musk, 49, has sowed doubts about Covid-19, questioning the virality of the disease and claiming fatality rates are overstated. Rapid tests have become more widely used in the fight against Covid-19, but these tests also are known to be less accurate than the more common, gold-standard polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests.

Source: Mint November 15, 2020 00:11 UTC