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 ...
depending on which kind of antibodies the tested for. IgM antibodies indicate recent or current infections. IgG antibodies indicate infection that you have likely gotten over and are now immune
HALF of people have the disease without realizing it.
Some people have stronger genes then other people.
If there are no symptoms there is no disease.
Great catch - thanks.
I have not looked at that panel for several weeks.
I’m thinking they had something else in there when they first started posting a month ago.
You know what the Positive Test Rate in New York is?
41% !!
That’s the kind of rate you get from influenza during its peak period.
Let's do some numbers so people can understand what they are actually talking about.
The population of Iceland is is about 350,000 people.
So ten percent would be 35,000.
The US has 330,000,000 people.
Ten percent would be 33,000,000.
Slight difference of scale.
I believe NY/NJ will have high positive results because testing isn’t available to everyone; the testing is being reserved for people with symptoms (so the result is skewed).
Antibody testing, probably.
You nailed it,
“You get it,
You Die”
.
Fear mongering at
best.
“Random testing in America? “
soon ... but not the brutal nasal swab, but instead serum testing of IGM/IGG; right now that test is available via venous blood draw, but soon a finger-stick test will be widely available, at which point random testing of a statistically valid sample will be possible for the U.S. ... that data will eventually help to determine when some threshold of “herd immunity” has been reached ...
“You need herd immunity, and you don’t get that by having lockdowns.”
indeed ...
and in fact, i’m starting to wonder whether what is really driving the “reopening” date is having enough HCQ/antibiotic/zinc supplies across the nation to treat the hundreds of thousands of new (symptomatic) cases AS SOON AS THEY OCCUR when the nation reopens for business ... lots of people getting sick from this disease won’t be that big of a deal if they can be effectively treated in the EARLY STAGES of the illness ...
“Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found that half of people have the disease without realising.”
Is this statement correct? Or is it really that half the people are unaffected by Covid-19, due to immune systems that take care of it.
Ryan Fahey, the journalist, needs to be executed ... before he can write again.
You r correct.
Dat statement be wrong, bro.
Or they have been regularly taking OTC immune strengtheners and probably stepped them up when this thing hit the news.
Bingo! That’s exactly what I’ve been hoping, and advocating.
We will know that’s the case if Fauci and Birx turn on a dime someday, as they should, and start telling news organizations that early treatment appears to work and that they should immediately start informing their viewers and readers that they should call a doctor if they experience the following symptoms, fever, dry cough, etc.
A cold day in hell: Maybe, but they once said that about closing all bars in Wisconsin too.
sigh...I wrote along reply and lost it, so here’s a link to the Iceland data: https://www.covid.is/data
I’m reasonably certain of two things: Both the hospital system and the private outfit (deCODE genetics) are testing for positive cases, not antibodies.
And, the comment about half of those tested being asymptomatic applies to the results of the deCODE testing (only 150 positives in all so far) and not to the hospital testing. (That’s based on a comment from deCODE that I read somewhere over a week ago when they had less than 100 positive readings.)
50% test positive but had not had symptoms? I wonder if the test kit used in Iceland is not showing valid results. There are a number of covid-19 kits from different sources and few have been tested to prove they are effective due the rush to have kits.
Iceland has a small population and they tend to be very compliant to government edicts so probably have self isolated to the point the virus has not touched many. So why the 50% showing up in testing?
7/1600 = 0.004375
But more importantly, I searched “girls from iceland” and it breaks my heart to be old, https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=girls+from+iceland&FORM=HDRSC2
From the article: “An estimated 50 per cent of those infected with the virus, the company found, do not show any symptoms. “
That very likely means that of the 150 positives that DeCODE identified, half were asymptomatic.
If so, it would not apply to the 1,550 positives identified by the hospital system, nor would it imply that half the people in Iceland are running around infected but not showing symptoms, nor that half of them have already been infected and recovered without knowing it.
All it means is that once you find a positive case by random testing, there’s a 50/50 chance the person wasn’t experiencing symptoms at the time tested. In two days, that might change. In two weeks, that person might be dead.
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