Twitter won’t remove irresponsible Elon Musk tweet about coronavirus 

Photo by Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter will not take down a tweet from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk where he said children are “essentially immune” to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, despite early evidence that they can be infected and become seriously ill.
Musk sent the tweet at 5:55PM ET on Thursday in response to a question from a user with the display name “Hopeful Pope of Muskanity.”“Kids are essentially immune, but