What the actual fuck is going on?https://twitter.com/jt_mag_os/status/1260184689991577606 …
Because there was community spread in Osaka, Tokyo and Kobe in March, and the local medical and epidemiological community was pretty freaked out. There were serious warnings about 400k fatalities being a possibility.
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I mean, I understand that there was spread but it looks like either because of masks or cultural distancing or whatnot it never got bad and was contained aggressively. I guess I don't know what would cause one to doubt the official story regarding the case counts.
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The reason there was so much doubt is twofold. First, a policy Japan had that every positive test ended up in a hospital bed. The criteria for getting tested were extraordinarily tight, in part because they used the tests as a way to gate hospital admissions
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