San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company's Gigafactory facility in New York will soon reopen to begin producing ventilators that are in short supply due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Giga New York will reopen for ventilator production as soon as humanly possible.
We will do anything in our power to help the citizens of New York," Musk tweeted on Wednesday. The tweet comes after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio asked for Musk's help sourcing ventilators last week.
The need for additional ventilators has taken center stage in the ongoing fight against the spread of coronavirus and the ventilator has become a critical first line of defense for patients infected by the virus.