CULVER CITY, Calif. - XPrize founder Peter Diamandis thought he could hold a conference in an "immunity bubble" in the middle of California’s COVID-19 surge last month but instead created a superspreader event that infected attendees, staff and himself."I was wrong," Diamandis wrote in a Feb.
12 blog post that detailed the implications of a false sense of security created by negative test results that may lower vigilance and his conclusion that face masks and distancing really are effective.It was a humbling admission for Diamandis, a high-profile entrepreneur who has degrees in science, engineering and medicine, and came to fame with the original XPrize for the first privately developed manned spaceflights that promoted space.