'You could have the universities do the testing. You could have the universities do the analysis of the data and help with planning how to deal with it,' deCODE Genetics CEO Kári Stefánsson told CNBC.
"It ought to be even easier in a country of your size with your resources, with this incredible amount of talent you have," Stefánsson said of the U.S. "If you were to bring this all to bare, you would easily be able to do the same thing as we."according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Stefánsson, a neurologist who was formerly a professor at Harvard University, said that in addition to an early commitment to widespread testing, Iceland's government also deployed "an extraordinarily vigorous" system of contact tracing. "You have all of this talent, all of this equipment in your universities, that could simply be drafted to apply to this epidemic," he said. "You could have the universities do the testing. You could have the universities do the analysis of the data and help with planning how to deal with it."
"So this is all a question of the will, the desire, the determination, to do this properly and my guess is to do that, there needs to be some sort of a central control," he said.
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