Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Their daily cases rose as and with their opening to US visitors with Iceland-accepted evidence of vaccination against Covid-19. And now Iceland is back in the range of its 2020 April 15th-September 15th daily case peaks. Still very low levels of reported infection, but still an increase. But Iceland's in a much better spot with Covid-19 now than it was at this time last year, so they will almost certainly stick with their opening to vaccinated visitors.
Correlation is not causation, so it could be that an inclination to opening up to visitors is a sign of things that were already in play.
That's not true. Their cases started spiking before Americans were allowed in because of a tourist who broke quarantine. And he was from a European country. This is why they now have mandatory hotel quarantine for most tourists, except for those who are fully vaccinated. And Iceland was always open for visitors from people from Europe. But I'm not going to argue about this.