All Eyes on Iceland

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Iceland has become one of the best places in the world to study Covid-19. That’s because the country is an island nation with only one real port of entry and a small population. It also introduced widespread testing as soon as the virus arrived in March. Bloomberg reporter Kristen V. Brown traveled to Reykjavik, the capital, just as the global scale of the pandemic was starting to become clear. She reports that the rest of the world is learning from Iceland about how the virus moves through a population.

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0:00.0	The forces shaping markets and the economy are often hiding behind a blur of numbers.
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0:32.9	Welcome to Prognosis.
0:35.4	I'm Laura Carlson.
0:41.6	It's day 47 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:50.0	Our main story? The closest thing we have to a giant laboratory for studying coronavirus is Iceland.
0:58.3	The tiny isolated nation has some of the perfect conditions for observing and tracking the spread of COVID-19,
1:02.1	including a public that trusts its government.
1:09.2	The research the government has done there is already informing the rest of the world.
1:14.6	But first, here's what happened today.
1:26.6	In the U.S., calculations about when and how to ease up on social distancing measures have been left almost entirely to states. Some states have already taken steps toward reopening.
1:31.5	Today, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, in a controversial move,
1:36.1	allowed barbershops, bowling alleys, and other high-contact businesses to open up again.
1:42.9	But in New York State, the location hardest hit by the
1:47.0	virus, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a more cautious roadmap toward restarting some economic activity.
1:54.0	In a briefing over the weekend, Cuomo talked about a phased-in reopening that could start as soon as May 15th.
2:02.2	It would begin with construction and manufacturing companies.
2:07.0	This comes as deaths in the state dropped to their lowest level in almost a month.
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