05-21-2020, 07:22 AM
It is interesting to examine https://www.icelandreview.com/ask-ir/wha...n-iceland/
Since it is relatively easy to control access to the country, Iceland has a lot of advantages in this outbreak. That said, their number of cases per day has behaved exactly as we were told it should, in theory. Note that their residual infection rate is essentially zero. It is also true that they never came anywhere close to testing the entire population. They almost assuredly never will either, because it is no longer interesting. They are all negative. According to https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/...n_iceland/
15.7 percent of the nation has been tested to date. It is also telling that over time 57% of the positive cases were from people already quarantined. That explains a lot of their success.
Since it is relatively easy to control access to the country, Iceland has a lot of advantages in this outbreak. That said, their number of cases per day has behaved exactly as we were told it should, in theory. Note that their residual infection rate is essentially zero. It is also true that they never came anywhere close to testing the entire population. They almost assuredly never will either, because it is no longer interesting. They are all negative. According to https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/...n_iceland/
15.7 percent of the nation has been tested to date. It is also telling that over time 57% of the positive cases were from people already quarantined. That explains a lot of their success.
