Posted on 10/26/2021 9:47:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tokyo — Japan’s Covid-19 case numbers have plummeted to the lowest in nearly a year just as other parts of Asia are struggling with surging infections, leaving health experts perplexed and raising concern of a winter rebound.
New daily cases in Tokyo dropped to 87 on Monday, the lowest tally since November 2, and from more than 5,000 a day in an August wave that hammered the capital’s medical infrastructure.
The pattern is the same across the country.
After a slow start, Japan has made rapid progress in its vaccination campaign and almost six months of emergency distancing restrictions have probably helped stem the spread of the virus. Nevertheless, the speed with which a wave of infections and hospitalisations fuelled by the highly infectious Delta variant has ebbed away has confounded the experts.
Kyoto University’s Hiroshi Nishiura is among those who believe the summer spike in cases and subsequent plunge were mainly due to trends in human activity.
Infectivity, as measured by the effective reproduction number, is correlated with holiday breaks, he said.
“During the holidays, we meet people whom we seldom meet up with, and moreover, there is a substantial chance to eat together in a face-to-face environment,” said Nishiura, a top infectious disease modeller advising the government.
Recent record cases in South Korea and Singapore may be connected to some midyear holidays, and a convergence of Asian and Western holidays at the end of the year could lead to a “nightmare”, he said.
But other experts say infection trends have less to do with travel and more to do with regular, seasonal trends.
Jason Tetro, a Canada-based infectious disease expert and author of The Germ Code said different age cohorts become “fuel” for the virus to perpetuate, depending on vaccination rates and prior infections, at different times.
“Without elimination of the virus, we will continue to see spikes until 85% of the population is immune to the dominant strain,” he said. “This is the only way to get out of these vicious cycles.”
A theory gaining ground is that Covid-19 and its variants tend to move in two-month cycles, though Tetro said the cycle is “more a factor of human nature than mother nature”.
Kenji Shibuya, the former director of the Institute for Population Health at King’s College, London, said he doubted that “the people’s flow” was driving the virus, as many government experts assert.
“It is primarily driven by seasonality, followed by vaccination and perhaps some viral characteristics which we do not know,” said Shibuya, who also directed municipal inoculations in northern Japan.
After a late start, Japan has vaccinated 61% of its population and the government was gearing up for booster shots to head off the breakthrough cases seen elsewhere in the world, Noriko Horiuchi, the new minister in charge of vaccines, said in her first press briefing since her appointment.
Whatever the cause of the lull, experts say time is of the essence to head off another resurgence.
“We only have a window of one month, so we should move fast to secure beds and ramp up vaccination,” Shibuya said.
Used to be a professional wrestler in the L.A. area that performed under this name back in the 1970's. Very entertaining "heel" character. Doubt if it's the same guy, though.
That was Kinji Shibuya. He died just short of his 89th birthday back in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinji_Shibuya
““You are not a horse. You are not a cow. You are not a member of Congress. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
You really think that Japan’s plummeting cases is because of Ivermectin?
The Brandon Media Cone of Silence has descended upon Japan, too.
Dr. Haruo Ozaki, chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association recommends ivermectin for use with COVID patients. He notes that the parts of Africa that use ivermectin to control parasites have a COVID death rate of just 2.2 per 100,000 population, as compared to 13 times that death rate among African countries that do not use ivermectin. Similarly, worldometer.com statistics say that the COVID death rate in India (which uses HCQ and Ivermectin to treat COVID) is 32 while the COVID death rate in the U.S.A. is 6.5 times higher at 205 per 100,000 population.
“Heel” or the “Face”,
The movie Wrestler is were I Figured that out.
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As far as the Wuhan Hoax,,,
I’m over it,,,2 years of grandMa hiding in a Closet,
Lies from Fauxi and stupid
Mandates from Our
Medical Tyrants.
I hope Nuremberg is I Side show compared to what the
Perpetrators of this Massive Power Grab deserve!
For Later ,Vaxxers!
If information is withheld or silenced, scientists cannot make accurate judgments.
See Galileo “E pur si muove".
the number of cases in the Philippines is also going down.
The government says it’s because the virus has moved to new areas, and the numbers of tests are going down.
Right now, there are problems finding non covid hospital beds but mainly due to the strict quarantine regulations in private hospitals.
No one knows.
It does, like other viral disease, seem to come in waves. Each wave less than the prior. Elderly and unhealthy most impacted by actual disease, the rest gaining immunity which contributes to the lessening of each successive wave.
The experts are idiots.
Anyone could have seen it coming.
Just like epidemics everywhere, they do their damage and then burn themselves out.
Japan decided to leave well enough alone and viola, it does what every disease before it has done. And then the “experts” are confused by it acting predictably.
What? No ivermectin?
Lets “multiply out all the numbers this guy is saying...
African countries’ covid deaths using ivermectin vs african countries not using ivermectin(though most countries in Africa may be using HCQ against mosqito borne malaria...not talked about)
2.2:100000 vs 2.2x13:100000 or 28.6:100,000
Next: India which uses Ivermectin and HCQ versus the USA
32:100,000 vs 205:100,000
If you compare India and African countries that don’t use Ivermectin (but might be using HCQ against Malaria but not mentioned in these studies)
32:100,000 vs 28.6:100,000 closer results
Hmmmm the real outlier to me are the 2.2 deaths per 100,000 in African countries using Ivermectin for covid. (some of those countries also have people using hcq for malaria prevention and may be taking Ivermectin WITH hcq) I think reporting methods might be skewed given the third world conditions in some of those countries in Africa...both the Ivermectin and the non Ivermectin countries)
USA figures are probably due to over and mis reporting and duplicate reporting and politically motivated spin so lets lop off 35 percent(just for gut estimates based on reported anomalies of counts from the blue states).
The biggest take away for me are the closer numbers of deaths noted between India and African nations who don’t use Ivermectin(but you have to consider that they are using HCQ for malaria).
The other take away is that we in the USA should be using Ivermectin and/or HCQ.... prophylactically and/or for early disease. It won’t keep everybody from getting covid or a case of covid that will kill them, but hcq and Ivermectin(alone or together) will greatly reduce chances for death and severe illness.
I bet the Japanese citizens took it upon themselves to acquire Ivermectin or HCQ, the usual vitamin regimen, and possibly Z-Pak when warranted. Pretty much what smart Americans are doing today.
Use as needed. It’s not rocket surgery. It just works.
More like the early 60’s. His tag team partner was Kenji Shibuya, master of the stomach claw. They fought regularly in St. Paul.
Sorry. His partner was Mitsu Arakawa. Hey, it’s 3:00 in the morning.
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