Posted on 11/14/2021 8:59:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Early this year, as Japan’s coronavirus cases began another ominous rise, the country seemed determined to confirm its reputation as a vaccine backwater.
Held up by additional clinical trials, its Covid-19 vaccine rollout lagged behind that of the UK and other countries by several months. And when it finally started offering shots in February, doses were administered at an achingly slow pace, beginning with medical staff and older people. Tens of millions of others were convinced they would have to wait many months before coming within arm’s reach of a health worker’s needle.
But today, Japan ranks among the most Covid-immunised countries in the world. As of Friday, more than 94.5 million people, or almost three-quarters of its 125 million population, had received both jabs – a higher rate than the UK and several other countries that began their rollouts much earlier.
Daily Covid-19 cases have plummeted. On Saturday, 202 new infections were reported nationwide, compared with more than 25,000 just three months ago. Tokyo had 24 cases, compared with a record 15,773 on 13 August, days after the closing ceremony of the 2020 Olympics.
Months of emergency measures, including a ban on alcohol sales at restaurants and bars, have been lifted and people are returning to sports and other events in significant numbers. Booster shots will be offered from next month, starting with medical workers.
Media hype over scares involving the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in the 1990s and, more recently, with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, helped turn Japan into one of the least vaccine-confident countries in the world, according to a 2020 Lancet study.
Less than 30% of people were confident that vaccines were safe, compared with at least 50% of Americans, the study said. A February poll by the Kyodo news agency found
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Data does not support the hype
The graph of cases in Japan matches exactly the time line graph for other less vaccinated nations. The vaccination campaign did nothing to lessen the severity of the outbreak. Japan suffered exactly the same patter from June to Oct as the US and other areas hit by the so called “delta” variety,
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/
A total of 185.98 million doses have been administered in the country, with 76.7% of the population having received at least one dose, the data showed.
The Japanese government has set a goal of finishing a second vaccine shot for everyone who hopes to be vaccinated in early November. It plans to start administering a third dose to medical workers as soon as December.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/26/national/japan-vaccine-rollout-top-three/
It will be interesting to follow, as Japan ‘finishes their goal of a second shot, for all’, beginning, now, as well as booooosters, for medical personal, in December.
Minimata II
I thought Japan was switching over to Ivermectin?
within a month they had covid under control. that was mid-september.
The state of covid in Japan has NOTHING to do with the jabs
They stopped giving all vaccines, or just one type?
If they've reach such a high rate of vaccination, they are obviously still doing it?
Looks like the reports of Japan using ivermectin was fake news on the right...
that’s my point... it’s a fake story trying to apply the success of ivermectin in japan to the jabs
Also, https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/journals/content/nejm/2017/nejm_2017.377.issue-1/nejmoa1614362/20180122/images/img_xlarge/nejmoa1614362_f2.jpeg
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