Elon Musk Tests Positive And Negative for COVID-19

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — SpaceX CEO and Tesla Co-Founder Elon Musk announced Saturday that he likely has a "moderate case" of coronavirus. The California-based tech giant also questioned the accuracy of COVID-19 testing after he reportedly tested both positive and negative Friday.

"Am getting wildly different results from different labs, but most likely I have a moderate case of covid," Musk tweeted Saturday. "My symptoms are that of a minor cold, which is no surprise, since a coronavirus is a type of cold."

On Friday, Musk said he took four separate tests for coronavirus, each with differing results.

"Something extremely bogus is going on," Musk tweeted Friday. "Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD."

He continued to tweet throughout the day, asking followers about the rate of receiving a false positive result from PCR testing.

Am getting wildly different results from different labs, but most likely I have a moderate case of covid. My symptoms are that of a minor cold, which is no surprise, since a coronavirus is a type of cold.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2020

Musk has notoriously downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic since March, tweeting as early as March 6, "the coronavirus panic is dumb."

Musk's suspected positive result also coincided with the state's recording of 1 million cases, which multiple news outlets reported as early as Thursday. California's COVID-19 dashboard officially announced the mark Saturday.

The news also comes just before SpaceX, headquartered in Hawthorne, pushed the launch of its second astronaut launch with NASA to Sunday due to onshore winds.