Iron Man Elon Musk Produces Ventilator To Treat COVID-19 Patients

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (Instagram @elonmusk)

JAKARTA - CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk has begun to fight against the corona virus outbreak. He said his company was ready to make ventilators for hospitals in need.

Launching the New York Post, via his Twitter tweet, he has purchased 1,255 ventilators from China to help treat corona positive patients. Later thousands of these ventilators will be handed over to hospitals in need in Los Angeles, United States (US).

Yup, China had an oversupply, so we bought 1255 FDA-approved ResMed, Philips & Medtronic ventilators on Friday night & airshipped them to LA. If you want a free ventilator installed, please let us know!

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2020

Even though in some of his tweets Elon seemed to underestimate the corona outbreak, apparently he still immediately provided assistance. Earlier he said Tesla and SpaceX were starting to act to produce their own ventilators

"If you want a free ventilator installed, let us know!" Musk wrote.

In fact, the 48 year old father of technology is not very enthusiastic about what is currently happening because of COVID-19. He tweeted on March 6 about "The coronavirus panic is stupid."

In fact, there are quite a lot of hospitals in the US that lack ventilators to deal with the COVID-19 disease outbreak. This also makes Musk insist on producing more supplies of ventilators for hospitals that need it.

“Tesla makes cars with a sophisticated hvac system. SpaceX makes spacecraft with life support systems. Ventilators are not difficult, but they cannot be produced instantly, "Musk tweeted.

Elon Musk's heroic action also received a response from the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who said that Musk had also collaborated with hospitals in Los Angeles to provide ventilators for free.

"They arrived in Los Angeles and Elon Musk was already working with hospital associations and others to get the ventilators out in real time. It was a heroic move," Newsom said.

That said, danger of panic still far exceeds danger of corona imo. If we over-allocate medical resources to corona, it will come at expense of treating other illnesses. Track graph at bottom of this page: https://t.co/7nWKjiZyFn

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 17, 2020

Now Tesla has joined General Motors Co in providing ventilators, after a customer urged him to redirect the Tesla plant to produce engines.

Newsom said six California companies had also offered their facilities to make personal protective equipment and that it was getting other providers to start producing masks for medical workers.

Currently, the US is preparing a COVID-19 Emergency Hospital which requires at least 50,000 beds for medical personnel and patients infected with the deadly virus.

However, the number of COVID-19 cases in the US is increasing day by day. In the last 24 hours, the number of victims who died increased by 29 people. This addition brought the total death toll in Uncle Sam to 582 people. Meanwhile, the number of recovered patients numbered 295, according to data from Worldometers.