Also when comparing Iceland and UK data, the raw data show one thing quite clearly, the per capita death rate is much higher in the UK than in Iceland. If they were the same, then (7/357,000 x 66.5 million) would have died in the UK and that is only about 1300 rather than the stated number approaching 9,000.
The Icelandic death toll applied to the USA (assuming population 1000 times greater) is 7,000. Applied to Canada it would be about 700. This is closer to the actual total in just Quebec province alone. Applied to B.C. it would be around 80 and we have had a little over 100, so against the odds B.C. has been responding at almost the same low rate as Iceland. Our provincial government were faster to respond than some and instituted one-care-home working rules earlier to lower the spread. However, as they acknowledge, two factors assisted that fall into the luck category. One was that our school break was later and further into the travel restriction phase, keeping our families at home more. And also, the graphic news coming out of nearby Seattle early in the pandemic was more urgently noted by our province with the common border, than further east in Canada.
Good point. The U.S. and the U.K. have already had more deaths than what would be predicted based on the Iceland numbers.