National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening

originally posted by: glend
a reply to: 1947boomer

Great information 1947boomer. The professor did say that the aged/sick should be isolated and mortaility rate of those under 60 is 20 fold less than those over 60. So instead of 1.98 million it would equate to something like 100,000 deaths on current mortality rates. But as you have pointed out, in iceland 50% of those who tested positive, were asymptomatic, So our current mortaility rates are highly likely to be inflated by lack of testing. Perhaps the Professor has included those probabilities in his estimate.

Its interesting that South Korea could control the spread of infection without implementing any lockdowns. Just one week after the country reported its first case they were manufacturing 100,000 test kits a day. Out of population of 50M they have had 214 fatalities to date.

They massively tested from the first sign - that;s was South Korea, Singapore and others have done.