Originally posted by dadudemon
My findings were .3%-.6% based on models anyone can run.But other models are showing it to be .1% or less and they are using better data that is more recent.
The error in my modeling is likely due to me using the data from the Cruise Ships: likely to be over-infection and higher rates of illness due to older people being over-represented in Cruise Ships "populations."
Iceland's figures reflect that over half of their population is/was infected but less but had no symptoms.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/half-coronavirus-carriers-no-symptoms
And their mortality rate is at .19%.
And they are trying to triple the number of people tested in Iceland:
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/plenty-of-swabs-for-covid-19-testing/
Iceland is great because the people travel in and out of Iceland by a larger proportion of their population than, say, the US.
But there could be something about Iceland's genetics and population that makes them particularly immune to COVID-19 which is why some experts are cautioning the optimistic results from Iceland.
Iceland is pretty but I always seem to find the smell of sulfur when I was there. Could never seem to get away from it.
Wife visited a close friend and we decided to fly that direction coming back from the US. What I noticed is that Iceland seems to have very stringent health requirements for kids. Her friend’s sister son was just slightly on the heavy side but was put on what felt like a very controlled eating/diet and exercise schedule (they told me that it was required by the school nutritionist or something, can’t really remember). Felt bad for the kid, he was always freakin hungry and it didn’t make sense to me (I’m not a health/kid growth expert tho so don’t take my word for it). So maybe healthier population? /shrug