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Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found HALF of people have the disease without realising...
Daily Mail ^ | April 11, 2020 | Ryan Fahey

Posted on 04/12/2020 7:33:43 AM PDT by L.A.Justice

Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found that half of people have the disease without realising.

They also discovered that 1,600 people have been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak. Of these cases, there were only seven deaths, indicating a fatality rate of just 0.004 per cent, which is significantly lower than other countries, including the UK.

The findings were made during Iceland's rigorous testing campaign, conducted with the help of Reykjavik-based biopharmaceutical company deCODE genetics, which has seen 10 per cent of the 364,413 population swabbed, something yet to be achieved by any other nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chinesevirus; cookingcovidrates; coronavirus; covidcaptivity; covidphobia; hydroxychloroquine; hysteriavirus; iceland; kungflu
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Random testing in America? Iceland is not a big country...
1 posted on 04/12/2020 7:33:43 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

You need herd immunity, and you don’t get that by having lockdowns.


2 posted on 04/12/2020 7:35:48 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: L.A.Justice

estimated 2020 population 364,134


3 posted on 04/12/2020 7:37:27 AM PDT by xp38
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To: L.A.Justice

Not clear if test was for active virus or immunity.

Seems an important distinction...


4 posted on 04/12/2020 7:39:17 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: L.A.Justice

Totally different land, and prospective. If you arrived in some areas of Georgia and wanted 100,000 people to step up and take the voluntary test....some might do it....some won’t do it.

In the case of Iceland, they were able to get to the 10-percent level, but it left them with some uneasy ‘data’. 50-percent had a ‘positive’ but weren’t showing any symptoms. If two weeks pass, and they still don’t show symptoms....more questions will arise.


5 posted on 04/12/2020 7:39:21 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: xp38

Or is it 364,413? ;-)


6 posted on 04/12/2020 7:40:13 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: L.A.Justice

One question arises from reading the article so far - do they have the disease in the sense of asymptomatic carriers, or have they fought the disease and won, or do they simply have antibodies? It seems like the first, but I do not find the article to be completely clear.


7 posted on 04/12/2020 7:41:20 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Half of those tested, or half of those who tested positive? There’s an enormous difference!!!!!


8 posted on 04/12/2020 7:41:30 AM PDT by dangus
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To: polymuser

All they test for is antibodies in your blood. Antibodies mean your body has been infected with the virus and reacted to it, possibly even gotten over it.


9 posted on 04/12/2020 7:42:12 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: CondorFlight

The media has made everyone so fearful of the virus that everyone thinks they will get it and die. IMHO this is a test run for the antichrist.


10 posted on 04/12/2020 7:42:16 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Thought so: What a completely idiotic headline.

“An estimated 50 per cent of those infected with the virus, the company found, do not show any symptoms.”

We already knew that. Almost no children show any symptoms.


11 posted on 04/12/2020 7:43:07 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Spktyr

It could be either or both. All Antibodies mean is that the pathogens got inside your body and your body reacted to the infection.


12 posted on 04/12/2020 7:43:07 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: CondorFlight

True, but the routine is that people get vaccinated for everything so you don’t need to go get the disease the way people used to do for measles and chicken pox.


13 posted on 04/12/2020 7:44:26 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: L.A.Justice

I think they have a decimal point problem with that mortality percentage.


14 posted on 04/12/2020 7:44:36 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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The idiocy continues to astound:

“Tourists with masks walk down Bankastraeti street in downtown Reykjavik, on 3 April. The case fatality rate in Iceland is just 0.004 per cent compared to the UK’s 0.12 per cent.”

No, the UK’s fatality rate is 12 percent, which equals 0.12 of a whole. Iceland’s is 0.4 percent, or .004 of a whole.


15 posted on 04/12/2020 7:44:56 AM PDT by dangus
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To: pepsionice

Yup, then we have questions about just what the latency time of this thing is. There were some edge case reports early on that latency could be as long as 30-40 days.


16 posted on 04/12/2020 7:45:15 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: L.A.Justice

I’ll wager a lot of people around the globe already have antibodies for this bug. Meaning, they had it, and got better. They now have an acquired immunity. I think this is why there are dramatically lower actual deaths from COVID-19, than the projected numbers that have been continually revised down.


17 posted on 04/12/2020 7:46:29 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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"Iceland is not a big country..."

Sounds like the test was manufactured locally.

Shouldn't a larger country with more people and more medical test manufacturing capability be able to incorporate economies of scale to get an even larger fraction of their people tested?

18 posted on 04/12/2020 7:49:13 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Morpheus2009

Yeah, and that’s kind of a problem. More information is needed.


19 posted on 04/12/2020 7:49:18 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: RGSpincich

The journalist class is largely innumerate. They prove this regularly.

7 dead out of 1600 infected with COVID-19 would be 0.44% by me.


20 posted on 04/12/2020 7:49:20 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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