Our friends at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) finally released the demographic data for December about a week later than scheduled…
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Last month, the US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report ominously titled “The First Battle of the Next…
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Do you remember back in spring 2020 when we were told that Singaporean-style digital contact tracing would help to control the pandemic? I’m sure you…
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Japan is now winding down Covid craziness. Universal masking will no longer be requested from March. Covid’s downgrading in May will mean the end of…
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The government of Japan will no longer request universal masking from March. To coincide with this, the government’s Covid Response Advisory Board put…
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The main reason I started this blog was to present a corrective to the overwhelmingly fawning coverage Japan’s Covid response had been given by the…
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A recent TV discussion took place involving Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Katsunobu Kato; lawyer and former mayor of Osaka City Toru Hashimoto…
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In a recent study, 4.6% and 6.7% of healthcare workers who wore surgical and N95 masks suffered headaches. In contrast, about 99% of companies in…
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Making (Covid) Waves in Japan