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How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus

The country didn’t just manage to flatten the curve; it virtually eliminated it.


https://www.newyorker.com/maga...beat-the-coronavirus

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“This was done in an extremely balanced way,” he said at one point. “And I think the authorities did pretty much everything right.” At another point, he told me, “The remarkable thing in this whole affair is that in Iceland it has been run entirely by the public-health authorities. They came up with the plan, and they just instituted it. And we were fortunate that our politicians managed to control themselves.”


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I guess it helps to so remote.

BTW, I wonder how they are handling it in Denmark.

Better than in Sweden, I hope.
 
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