Has anyone been following the testing being conducted in Iceland? Lots of encouraging news from there in my opinion.
3.4% of entire population tested. Early estimates are that 50% of cases are asymptotic, majority of the rest experience moderate cold like symptoms. A genetics company called deCode's been doing free voluntary testing.
A week old update shows that of 5571 tests 48 returned as positive. That's 0.86% of the sample and if stretched to the entire population would imply 3,462 infections at that point. Of course a voluntary test is not strictly random, but it has been conducted only on asymptotic people.
As of today
official figures only show 802 found cases, of which 82 have recovered, 17 have been hospitalised, 3 are in ICUs and 2 have died.
Obviously the majority of found cases are still in the balance but if the world's most effective testing scheme is only capturing 25% of actual cases then that's surely good news. Especially since of known cases relatively few have so far required hospital attention and even fewer an ICU.
It's possible that testing means they're just out in front of the disease and so picking up people earlier in its progression. Numbers might get worse but as of right now it looks pretty decent over there.
