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. ♪ >> this week our worldwide search for tasty snacks takes us to iceland. ♪ >> the icelandic landscapesd you don't even have to leave town to enjoy them. even from the center of reykjavik there are breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. of course, it tends to be pretty cold for most of the year. but svarta kaffid is a small restaurant where you can warm up and enjoy the local speciality, soup in a bread bowl. >> iceland is the perfect place for soups. yesterday it was raining, it was a typical soup day. now it's just cold, so it's alalso soup day, but not that much. >> the chef's name is unpronounceable for anyone who doesn't speak icelandic, so everyone calls him siggi. his restaurant is a small family business that first opened in 2003 with the same concept it still has today. >> we have two kinds of soup. we always change them. one veggie and one meat soup. today we have a mushroom soup, both of them are cream based, so mushroom soup and the other one is a hungarian meat soup. what makes it hungarian is more like paprika, cumin, onion in it and mixixed vegetables. >> freshl

this is prime minister iceland has. thousand seven hundred ninety two confirmed cases of covert nineteen ten death so it means both an infection rates and the mortality rate of less than zero point 5% before we get to how you've reached result i want to ask you a very simple question do you consider that in your country the pandemic fully. under controlol. i would say that the pandemic is not over the we have it. the relatively good control. and we have from the beginning- in separate taken. just over f fory six thouousand tests and we have used the method of tracing infections so new infections now are very few they have been from zero up to in the last few days so yes i think we are gaining control over the pandemic but o obviously there have been. a strong social restrictions- and we're planning to opopen up again lifting the first restrictions next weeeek and t then we will follow the procedure very closely with. right us. the message there's been no on the schools and shops have been open- air travel is ststill up

but that is not the case in iceland. >> almost completely unobserved, iceland's largest geyser erupts into clear blue skies, with few people to see. today these two made the trip. >> we wanted to see some of the sights without all the terrorists here for once. >> the coronavirus has completely halted iceland's usually thriving tourist trade, leaving tourists to enjoy the wonders in relative peace. where they travel and who with is logged in a mobile app. more than half the nation is rental sistered. this makes it easy to track the potential spread of the virus. >> we needed something like this from the very start of the outbreak when it was crucial to track people coming into the country frfrom abroad. >> at the beginning of march, holiday makers from iceland contracted the virus while skiing in the alps. until then, coronavirus hadn't found it's way to the small island nation. almost immediately, he voluntary testing was offered. every day the chief each epidemiologyist updates the public. >> we have performed a higher percentage of tests on citizens than any other nation. we place h

anybody wishing to visit iceland on holiday is required to spend 2 weeks in quarantine 1st the rule is simple you can do what you want providing you do it's a loan. of a japanese photographer yasin yasha chiba rose from press so i have a has won the prestigious world press photo of the year award his shot shows a group of young people during the uprising in sudan last year this year's prize giving prize giving event has been canned has been canceled because of the corona virus pandemic. the competition focuses on the global political events especially crises wars and other catastrophes one of the most compelling events last year was sudan's peaceful uprising that was violently suppressed by government security forces. the people 1st turned against dictator omar bashir then against the ruling military council after his ouster resistance prevailed amid the chaos and that's was captured in the winning picture the photographer snapped a shutter as a young man shouted out peace poems. between his breath everyone shouted. the revolution. deficient expression voice impressed me. i could not s

almost completely unobserved iceland's largest piece that erupts into clear blue skies they have been few visitors of late whose people ought to keep their distance during look down today only laina ocean have made the trip over like us so we wanted to see some of the science without all the tourists here for once a woman is wearing the mc the corona virus has completely halted iceland's usually thriving tourist trade leaving locals to enjoy the many natural wonders in relative peace where they travel and who with is located in a mobile app more than half the nation is registered. this makes it easy to track the potential spread of the virus because you passed over the period we needed something like this from the very start of the outbreak when it was crucial to track people coming into the country from abroad. at the beginning of march holidaymakers from iceland contracted the virus while staying in the alps until then corona hadn't found its way to the small island nation almost immediately voluntary testing was offered to residents in the capital reykjavik every day chief epidemio

the ceo of iceland-based decode genetics will join us. what the company has learned about how the virus spreads. it's an interesting study. >> let's focus in on the big stories we are watching in this final hour of trade. bob pisani tracking today's sell-off courtney reagan with plunging retail sales numbers and wilford. bob, a little recovery we've seen >> let's take a look at the s&p and call this one cuomo versus the horrible economic data because the markets once again, cuomo moves markets. 12:30, started talking about lower hospitalization rates, the market lifted at that time continuing to lift but can't compete against those horrible economic data sara was talking about. the energy, the banks, the small caps, the industri industrials, economic news, they suffer the energy stocks getting pounded, even down double digits, some recovering off the lows like apache and hess. we had terrible news about the reits. these rallied briefly into the close on friday and have been down the past cup dales in a row, down big again today. the homeo

the united states has roughly 1,000 more people than iceland. going to find as we continue to test, and we have in absolute terms had the most amount tests because our numbers are so much bigger than it countries we're comparing ourselves to. as we begin testing we're going to find inincreasingly that range of symptoms from asymptomatic to really severe. and that's going to be necessary because we can't see this virus. this is a microorganism that you can't even see through a mi microscope. testing allows us to see it. who is symptomatic, who's potentially to become ill, coming out of europe continues to reif force is those over the age of 60 and underlying conditions and that allows us importantly to open up the economy again. once we can see the enemy and we can think of how we live with it and work around it. >> officials in iceland they're not just testing sick people and their contacts, they're testing at random by selecting names out of the country's telephone directory. >> what? >> yeah, a, they still have telephone books, but they're als

"yeah no, but it takes place in iceland, so everyone will have an icelandic accent.no, i think everyone else should be british too. "yeah, but kenneth, won't that be weird?" "sorry, friend those are the kenny branagh rules. and that was an extended bit for people who have seen bbc's production of the swedish crime drama "wallander." hey, the attic shows are going to have some deep cuts, everybody. thems the rules. one of the biggest takeaways of iceland's approach is that by aggressively testing everyone they've been able to avoid having to lock down their entire country the way we've had to >> it's very important to test very aggressively. we put those who test positive in isolation and we do contact tracing very aggressively also. we put all contacts in quarantine and it's interesting that more than half of those who we are diagnosing now are actually in quarantine when they're diagnosed, which means our policy of quarantine is probably very effective in minimizing the epidemic >> this has allowed authorities here to delay the closure of bars and restauran some sto

he was for a couple of years in iceland. backing up further, he was editor of the grand rapids herald. that led his path. he was a lieutenant in the civil conservation corps, the ccc. all of this expertise in being a reporter and military experience, all of those things culminate into the perfect person to work in an intelligence division. in iceland he was assigned to the intelligence division. he was an aide de camp to a general. while there, most people don't know this, but we were already actively engaging with the germans. they were sinking merchant ships. we were shooting down planes. it was one of those planes they had shot down that they noticed a codebook was amidst the wreckage. there might be an image of that here. he took that codebook to the -- to bletchley park. many know the story where they were decoding the german enigma. code breaking was in part -- took place because of the codebook recovered during that time. he was in such turning points of the war throughout. one story, he arrived into paris. and of cou

in iceland, they are saying that is closer to 50%.f there are so many cases that are spreading without testing, models can never fullyre the extent. right now they models in new york are based on the cases we because they have severepital respiratory. that is not a reliable model. we could still have a second wave of additional cases. anchor: nearly 16,000 america was this avoidable? >> absolutely. the u.s. had discovered their first case the same day that south korea did. south korea went ver aggressive. thousands of tests per day. the u.s. was stuck with 500 total tests cumulatively for three weeks. it was not until mid february that whistleblowers tested fagainsteral law that they discovered all of these cases. late..swas too little, too they did not ramp up testing. now we are faced with a csis. anchor: could we open up the country in early may? >> i think you will start to plateau in may. but i will not be sure if we will bring it up -- down to zero. e u.s. is a big country. it is not like italy. the epidemic is in 50 states. i a

iceland that you can pop to.our sales are up 16% and frozen food sales are up as people look to fill their freezers. i wonder if, after this crisis is over, you might shift more permanently focus to online sales as opposed to your 1,000 stores? no, ithink online sales as opposed to your 1,000 stores? no, i think there's a lwa ys 1,000 stores? no, i think there's always going to be a place for physical stores and every store we have almost is profitable. week in week in. they're imbedded in the communities we serve. and the health of high street is fundamental to the health of the uk economy. so i would like to see long—term support for the high street in general. once we get out of this crisis. because it is essential, as the fabric of the uk infrastructure. once we do get out of this, it will either be via a vaccine or other treatment what, measures will you have to keep in place to keep staff and customers safe ? place to keep staff and customers safe? the safety of our staff, our customers is paramount and we

when the icelandic banks were printing essentially money to buy back their own shares ad infinitum and then they all in concert collapsed but you know we were talking about negative interest rates face of play and how that as an historical anomaly now it had ever thought about doing this before it seemed crazy and yet it did exist and is an ongoing policy initiative well you know there's something new even more ridiculous some might argue and that would be a negative price on oil so oil prices went negative which is just as toxic i would think is negative interest rates are the 2 related alister no not really as i understand it in. the next best on the oil markets the real price of oil you have to look out if you like the long futures curve to 612 months and that gives you an idea as to exactly what prices the fluctuation is all at the from ted and it's because of delivery problems we had the situation and climax where people had bought the oil if you like oil contracts not realizing that the seller could actually dump the oil on them and that's actually what happened they got no way t

but the problem is with the airline, icelandic. they are saying we can change dates of the flight but can't cancel the flight without losing our money. are there things the government can do? i booked the flight through a travel agency and that was the reply i got, at least at the moment. inhink things are changing europe regarding flights to europe right now, but what do you see as a potential to resolve that? steve: did you have travel insurance? caller: no, i did not. i looked into that, but decided not to. steve: thank you for the question. dr. harris: -- tori emerson barnes paul -- right now the ability to cancel may change, depending on the wreck -- on the regulations. i can't speak on behalf of icelandic, they are not a member of ours, but i do think that from a government perspective, there is not a lot they can do with regards to cancellation fees under the current law. toould advise you continue reach out to icelandic enter travel agent, and as you get closer to the date, that you consider other options, and maybe the lat

lead which has been bumbling undernet best weed in a well being collaboration with new zealand in iceland both are doing way better than us why we not turn on their experiences and successes why are we not leading the way in the u.k. david says the thing about making hard to manage your work is that the disease requires between 8 to 10 ways before it can work in the meantime many many people die and we're talking a lot of numbers this disease is going nowhere and a vaccine is a long way off john says the government are clearly imposing the locked and more palatable 3 week chunks when the reality is that this will continue for longer than that schools need to be responsible patient income while accepting the short term destruction for a longer term wellbeing market says great show alex sort of session to see questions that are honest in the lightning and can be despondent to honestly sonia said look forward to visiting multiple game probably next year night. as martha closed the deal before a flight ticket everyone donal says boeing sure alex and very thought provoking a universal income n

and legibly showing children don't have the receptive to get infected with the virus one study in iceland interviewed a group of voluntary participants and came to the conclusion that children play only a minor role in spreading the coronavirus german vie religious however have questioned that saying the research only focused on a small fraction of the population new research from berlin chevy chase hospital involving now famous german virologist coastin to austin suggest children develop as many viruses in their throats as adults making them just as infectious. and research is involved in a chinese study concluded children become infected with the virus just as often as adults one thing experts around the world broadly agree upon is that infected children tend to develop milder symptoms than adults but as doctors point out that's not the case for every single child there are some children who have developed severe disease and some children who have died. there are some recent rare descriptions of children in some european countries that have had this inflammatory syndrome which is simila

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in iceland, they offered free testing to all citizens, whether they were showing symptoms or not.nd she used a tracking system so she didn't have to tlok down sand suffocate the economy. compare that to sweden, which has by far the highest death rates and is the only country there that isn't led by a woman. smaller nations are perhaps easier to manage, but that doesn't explain angela merkel's success in germany, a nation of 83 million. this chart compares germany's noticeably low death rate with other comparable european states and the u.s. so what explains the apparent link between low virus mortality rates and female leadership? >> each of the leaders you mentioned brings a combination of compassion and rigor i think to the way they've engaged the public, fact-based everyday, science-based early. but also really showing empathy and showing and speaking to the humanity of what's at stake here in the crisis. >> reporter: managing a crisis requires recognizing it early on and acting. it shows a disproportionate number of female leaders successfully taking that approach to the curre

if you look in korea, if you look at taiwan, if you look at iceland, they've done enough testing that they can get out of lockdown. if we massively ramp up our testing effort, then that's when it would be realistic to come out. setting a date is the wrong way to do it. >> dr. reiner, another thing that i know a lot of people have been talking about is testing for antibodies. obviously there are questions as to, you know, what kind of antibody protection people really have and i know there is a small study indicating some people don't have as many antibodies as we would expect. but if antibody testing, mass testing to see who actually had it, which would then pickup all the asymptomatic people, is that the way to do this? so if you were able to check the box that you had it, you could fully go back into the economy? >> i think it's a confidence booster to the economy and to individuals to know that they've been exposed to the virus and they have protective antibodies. already in europe, antibody testing is commercially available. in some countries, even at-home testing is available. ve

s is laying off up to $5000.00 full time employees and iceland is laying off 2000 the pentagon has released videos taken by u.s. navy pilots that show made and counters with what appear to be u.f.o.'s filmed in 2004 and 2015 liter versions were already in circulation u.s. authorities said that they released the official footage to confirm that the pictures are genuine. the european union and mexico have successfully concluded talks on the new trade agreement under the deal practically all trade between the 2 will be duty free it also includes a commitment to implement the paris climate agreement mexico is the use leading trading partner in latin america. organizers of the postponed tokyo olympics say the event will be canceled if it can't take place next year the games will move to july 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic scientists in japan have warned that it will be difficult to host the games unless a medical solution is found. another delay isn't an option you shiel movie the talk you 2020 committee president made it clear that the games would be cancelled rather than pushed back

now, when our biggest enemy is a tiny virus, i remember this trip to the deep—frozen blood banks of icelandere eco—genetics were at the forefront of research into why each of us does or doesn't suffer from certain diseases. back in 2014, though, nothing could be further from our minds, as we popped on our phone skirts, hopped on our one—wheels and headed to australia. they were also studying how bushfires behave to help the authorities predict who to evacuate, and when. injapan, dan got his hands on the world's first 56 transmitter. this now fits in your phone. i did some air graffiti, lara did the windows, and lj got a facelift. see, i told you she was a cyborg. talking of which... in 2014, drones were everywhere. they were literally falling out of the sky. in israel, jen scared the life out of a lamp, and we saw the first self—driving car that could handle junctions. unlike mark. watch out mark. there's a visual effect straight ahead! 2015 was a vintage year. south korea served up robots that hunted jellyfish, and an e—sports tournament where the teams were kept in a fish tank and flying

s is laying off up to $5000.00 full time employees and iceland is laying off 2000. but could the coronavirus pandemic be a chance to save the planet from climate change that was the question of a debate on choose day as germany and britain hosted this year's online version of the petersburg climate dialogue german chancellor angela merkel says climate protection has to be considered as part of the economic stimulus programs that governments are launching to help industries recover from the pandemic. well early in the zoo is back in business from today climate activists fear that because of the corona crisis politicians may play increasingly hard to get on their climate goals addressing the 1st virtual pieces about climate dialogue. came out in favor of the business climate goals despite the crisis. always a vision to go over and it will be all the more important to firmly consider climate protection when we agree stimulus packages. we must ensure that we're not saving money on climate change now but invest in in future oriented technologies and we must not think nat

s is laying off up to 5000 full time employees and iceland air is laying off 2000. spain has started loosening its lockdown on children allowing them to leave their homes for the 1st time in 6 weeks the move followed he said the public debate about spain's very strict curfew and warnings from experts over the psychological impact of keeping children indoors news young philip schultz went to meet one family as they left their lockdown. it's and how they have waited for 43 days for this exact moment they are finally allowed to leave their apartment again accompanied by their mother of course they say it's a great feeling but a little unusual too. you see a lot of kids hardly any adults on the street. and there aren't any cars the constraints imposed on children where some of the strictest in europe they were not allowed outside not even for a few minutes this gives them all the more reasons to be excited about what's finally possible again. my friend lives really close maybe i can at least see her from a just in. time but only from a distance and to morrow we all go r

the helis haiti geothermal power station supplies a 3rd of iceland's electricity. as part of the card fix research program icelandic engineers in partnership with the european union have developed a technology to inject the plants emissions directly into underground wrong. the swiss company clime works has set up a system that captures c o 2 in the air and buries it. here 50 tons of c o 2 per year. maybe offsets. the costs with this you can capture. or whatever. in the. store it's going to. have it using a filter and the power plants energy the c o 2 we've captured and injected into subterranean layers of salt more than 400 meters below ground. from the plants. this year too is mixed with what there it goes into a steel pipe into the bathroom the c o 2 in this fluid if it is see it what it creates. and this assett this solves the rocks and then rocks the lever to cut them into this one and they bind immediately with a c o 2 to form another rocks. you can see here you have these small purples this is going to be have space for the c o 2 from the air to press it it a

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iceland has tested a larger percentage of its population than any country in the world, testing about% of all citizens. united states by comparison has .3%. 5 half of those who tested positive and iceland have been completely asymptomatic. so given all of this, what is a wise response to this pandemic? historically, health officials have used quarantine to contain infectious diseases. until now, a quarantine consisted of doing everything possible to protect the especially vulnerable. in this case, that would include the elderly and immunosuppressed. among other groups. we have a pretty good idea that targeted quarantines work right if they've been used for centuries around the world. but that's not what we did.k instead, the united states and many other countries instituted mass quarantines in which government shut down entirely nations for long periods, this never happened before. mass quarantines makes sense if you are fairly certain it will it prevent mass infections, but are we certain of that? despite what you might hear on television, we are not certain ouof that still. in fact,

but the problem is with the airline, icelandic. they are saying we can change dates of the flight but can't cancel the flight without losing ou europe regarding what they are saying regarding flights to europe now. what do you see has potential to resolve some of that problem? host: did you have travel insurance? caller: i did not. i looked into that but decided not to. host: thank you for the question. unfortunately, right now there is still a lot to be decided that might change your ability to cancel depending whatat rules are -- recommendations are extended, maybe they won't be from the cdc. i cannot speak on behalf of icelandic, they are not a member of ours. i do think, from a government perspective of, there is not a lot they can do with regards to cancellations under the current law. continuedvise that you to reach out to slade deck and your travel agent, and as you get closer to the date that you consider other options, and maybe the later you wait, the longer you have to reschedule the flight. joan, goodersey, evening. thi

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look at iceland. 13.5% of that country has been tested. iceland is easier to get your arms around than the united states. but look at spain. 2.2% has been tested. italy, which we talk so much about, 3% of the population tested. then look at the united states, 1.7% of the population has been tested. how much of the population of the united states would have to be tested for you to feel comfortable with getting back to so-called normal and reopening. >> that's a really good question. it is an important question. we're a bigger country, obviously. doing more tests here, you know, still might mean fewer per capita. i think your question is the important one, alisyn, like, what is the right level of testing ultimately. there is all sorts of different ways to look at it, some people say you have to be testing enough people where most of the tests are coming back negative. you're starting to penetrate into the communities, some people said that is a 10% positivity rate, which would make sense in that case. if you have to put then a number on it,

not been successful at here. >> the things we used in iceland to test widely to bring about this kindf control, these are all things we learned from the americans. you taught us how to do this but haven't been doing it yourself, and that is pretty sad. >> you hear what he just said, to sequence the virus from everyone infected and that we taught them, the americans, but haven't done it. can that be done here? my next guest is trying to do just that. joining me now is chief medical officer at partners in health to run a new coronavirus contact tracing project in massachusetts. and doctor, maybe just can you just start by describing what a contact tracing program looks like when it's implemented? >> yeah, so thanks so much for having me on, chris, and for talking about this important topic. as you pointed out, every time a new case is found, and this is true for any infectious disease, the best way to stop transmission is to talk to the person who has the infection and then enumerate the people they have been in contact with. in the case of coronavirus, it's challenging because it's any