Name: Iceland's Plan To Stop Covid-19 Actually Works
Uploaded: 2020-04-29T18:41:17.000Z
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Today we're off to Iceland, one of my favorite countries

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which has been at the very leading edge of

There is a company there called deCODE genetics,

the Icelandic population's genomes for about 25 years.

When the virus hit, they very quickly started testing

They've come up with some of the biggest insights we have

Let's hit Iceland and talk to the CEO of deCODE genetics.

and I'm the founder and CEO of deCODE genetics.

You had one of the most ambitious testing programs.

You've tested I think it's about 10% of the population?

So it sounded like at first, anybody who wanted a test

could sign up and apply for one, and then you went

the phone book and kind of picked people.

for 28 days before finding the first patient.

We started to screen in a population in general

And we have already screened about 10% of the population.

We have determined that on average, during this time

that we've screening, about .8% of the population

And that first generated a very interesting picture.

from everyone infected gives us an opportunity

the infection in all of the infected in Iceland.

Another thing that you can do with this sequence is

that you can use it to trace the infection in Iceland.

You can figure out who was infected from whom.

So if you were diagnosed with an infection,

we can in an instant, find all of the smartphones

that within one or two meters from your smartphone over

the past five days, which is somewhat scary.

It sounds like considerable invasion of privacy.

But when you are looking a beast like this in the eyes,

You know because Iceland is relatively contained,

because you were so aggressive with your testing

and tracing, I mean you didn't go on to the same lockdown

Explain to me what lockdown looked like a month ago

and what it looks like now as a result of all the testing

that you've been able to do and all the tracing.

We have the ban on gathering more than 20 people.

We are insisting that we should keep social distance

the childcare centers are open, the stores are open.

We are taking a very mild approach to this in general

but we have been very aggressive when it comes to

and been very aggressive in looking for them

I think that the societal price for doing

there's a higher price than screening but that's trivial.

I mean so this remains kinda shocking to me,

I mean like, how is it possible that we still do not

have widespread anti-body testing in places outside

is that we don't have it in the United States,

because what we're doing here in Iceland is

You have this unbelievably resourceful nation.

You have, you know, you have the 25, 50 best universities

and the supply chain, or do you really think this is

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