SpaceX is Making and Donating Products to Help Fight Coronavirus

Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX is doing its part to fight back in the coronavirus outbreak. The company is making and donating hand sanitizer and face shields for the coronavirus effort according to an internal email.

The memo sent over this past weekend has revealed that SpaceX employees are making face shields and hand sanitizer to donate to outside organizations fighting COVID-19. The company is donating them to local hopsitals and other businesses.

Recently a worker and a medica at the company’s on-site clinic in Hawthorne, California had tested positive for the virus. SpaceX had sent home at least a dozen workers after.

Employees at the company are also planning a blood drive for later this week in Hawthorne with the American Red Cross.
The company told its employees via the internal memo that it built 75 face shields over the weekend, and delivered them to Cedars Sinai, a local health system near its headquarters in Hawthorne.

The company also donated 100 “tyvek” protective suits to medical personnel at the hospital, and is scaling up efforts to produce and distribute hand sanitizer that “complies with CDC guidelines and is effective at killing the COVID-19 coronavirus.”

Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, has been changing his tune since sending out a tweet earlier in the month that said the panic was “dumb.” In a recent e-mail to employees, he wrote, “My frank opinion remains that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself.” He also claimed that children are “essentially immune” to the virus via Twitter, which is not true.

Musk is also now trying to help in the effort to get more ventilators to hospitals.