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Curtis Hertel Jr.: “ICELAND is testing 13% of their population right now.”

Featuring: Curtis Hertel Jr., Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 7

Episode 14 - Getting a Hold of Government w/ Senator Curtis Hertel Jr.

Published April 13, 2020 | Video Starts at 14:10

Okay. So that's the hard part, is that we have no idea in many ways how many cases there are out there because we don't have, you know, ICELAND is testing 13% of their population right now. so they have a robust number of tests, a very small population, fairly easy to do. In a country like ours, we're unlikely to ever get to that number. (14:10–14:15)

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Asserts that Iceland is testing 13% of its population for COVID-19.

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