{"id":450,"date":"2020-06-11T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=450"},"modified":"2020-07-02T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T23:09:42","slug":"how-iceland-beat-covid-19-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/11\/how-iceland-beat-covid-19-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"How Iceland Beat Covid-19 (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"

M\u00f6ller pulled up a series of graphs and charts on her laptop. These showed that, per capita, Iceland had had more COVID-19 cases than any other Scandinavian country, and more than even Italy or Britain. There was an outbreak in a nursing home in the town of Bolungarv\u00edk, in northwestern Iceland, and one in the Westman Islands, an archipelago off the southern coast, which seemed to have started at a handball game. (In Europe, handball is a team sport that\u2019s sort of a cross between basketball and soccer.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe numbers in the beginning were terrible,\u201d M\u00f6ller said. She attributed the country\u2019s success in bringing the caseload down in part to having got an early start. The \u201ctrio,\u201d along with officials from Iceland\u2019s university hospital, had begun meeting back in January. \u201cWe saw what was going on in China,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe saw the pictures of people lying dead in emergency departments, even on the street. So it was obvious that something terrible was happening. And, of course, we didn\u2019t know if it would spread to other countries. But we didn\u2019t dare take the chance. So we started preparing.\u201d For example, it was discovered that the country didn\u2019t have enough protective gear for its health-care workers, so hospital officials immediately set about buying more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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M\u00f6ller pulled up a series of graphs and charts on her laptop. These showed that, per capita, Iceland had had more COVID-19 cases than any other Scandinavian country, and more than even Italy or Britain. There was an outbreak in a nursing home in the town of Bolungarv\u00edk, in northwestern Iceland, and one in the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}