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 ...
You need herd immunity, and you don’t get that by having lockdowns.
estimated 2020 population 364,134
Not clear if test was for active virus or immunity.
Seems an important distinction...
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.
Or is it 364,413? ;-)
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.
Half of those tested, or half of those who tested positive? There’s an enormous difference!!!!!
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.
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.
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.
It could be either or both. All Antibodies mean is that the pathogens got inside your body and your body reacted to the infection.
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.
I think they have a decimal point problem with that mortality percentage.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Yeah, and that’s kind of a problem. More information is needed.
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.
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