had been swiftly and well contained, but also that nearly three times had been infected as had been officially diagnosed since the end of February and also that the population was still more than 98% naive. That indicated that large-scale testing would need to continue to detect later outbreaks as the country reopened its borders to travel by its own citizens and others coming to Iceland. In June, the company said that it was working with Amgen's unit in British Columbia to use white blood cells from recovered Icelandic COVID patients to begin to manufacture antibodies for the virus, which could be used either prophylactically or therapuetically. Appearances in popular culture The work of deCODE is criticised by Arnaldur Indriðason's novel Jar City from 2000, which was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name. deCODE and Kári Stefánsson are satirised as VikingDNA and Professor Lárus Jóhannsson in Dauðans óvissi tími by Þráinn Bertelsson (Reykjavík: JPV Útgáfu, 2004). deCODE and specifically Kári Stefánsson is presented as the creator of monstrous genetic hybrids in Óttar M. Norðfjörð's satirical 2007 work Jón Ásgeir & afmælisveislan (Reykjavík: Sögur, 2007), and the history of DeCODE appears both directly and in allegorised form (under the fictional name OriGenes) in the same author's novel Lygarinn: Sönn saga (Reykjavík: Sögur, 2011). deCODE is the model for the company CoDex, in CoDex 1962 by Sjón. References Further reading Thráinn Eggertsson. 2011. "The evolution of property rights: the strange case of Iceland's health records." International Journal of the Commons Vol. 5, no 1 February 2011, pp. 50–65 On deCODE in the context of the new genomics: Davies, Kevin, The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine (New York: The Free Press, 2010) An Icelandic anthropologist's collected essays touching on Iceland, deCODE and genomics: Palsson, Gisli, Nature, Culture and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) A period piece critical view of deCODE and commercial genomics in the early 2000s: Fortun, Michael, Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 'Gene Frenzy' Heats Up Iceland, CBS News, 2 December 2002. External links deCODE genetics website deCODE genetics Icelandic website Biobank organizations Biotechnology companies established in 1996 Biotechnology companies of Iceland Companies based in Reykjavík Genomics companies Icelandic brands Pharmaceutical companies of Iceland Population genetics organizations 1996 establishments in Iceland Companies