Musk Promoted Ventilators Allegedly Linked to Covid Deaths

According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, eighty percent of covid-19 sufferers who were put on respirators in hospitals died.

Musk made these marks on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, helping to buttress his bona fides as a truth teller and champion of the people.

At the same time, the billionaire left out an important detail – namely his leading role in distributing ventilators and ventilator parts to hospitals throughout the United States.

On X (Twitter,) Musk doubled down on the sentiments he voiced on Rogan’s show, tweeting, “for many, (ventilators were) a death sentence.”

Referencing a mortality rate as high as 90 percent, the Washington Post reported that ventilators were “overused on covid-19 patients,” citing critical care specialists who observed that “many patients fare poorly on ventilators.”

“Putting covid-19 patients on ventilators straight away may be the wrong approach, some experts say,” the Washington Post reported. “As emergency and intensive care doctors around the globe work frantically to save the lives of people gravely ill with covid-19, one of the world’s foremost critical care experts is warning against what he calls the misuse and overuse of mechanical ventilators.”

Ventilators can severely damage lungs, Musk told Rogan, adding that “the cure is worse than the disease.”

Musk Enters the Respirator Business

In the spring of 2020, Musk recognized an opportunity.  Ventilators were in short supply and demand was growing in the wake of covid.