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usaar333 on April 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass te...

case rate, not infection rate. They are one of the few nations in the world that are credibly even close to catching half their infections. The US is probably missing 90% (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.06.20055582v...)

To that point, their death rate is lower than the Bay Area.

To a second point, Iceland is under a very weak lockdown, if you can even call it that. Their elementary schools remain open.

cma on April 19, 2020 [–]

Through mass testing they already avoided one nursing home hit, and haven’t had a single hit. If they do, their fatality rate could quadruple because of how small the numbers are we are looking at there.

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