The timing is the mystery. Cases started rising after March 24. Before then there was already anxious talk of undertesting, and a Health Ministry prediction that cases would spike in mid-April. State of emergency didn't happen until April 16, but by then cases were declining
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does Japan do actual quarantines? like forcing travelers entering the country into isolation for ~2 weeks?
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I ask bc US state numbers are similarly confounding, and my only real theory is # of initial seed cases. NY(,NJ,MA) had unrestricted travel from Italy, China, and from other states before any testing was available. and undetected seed cases is obviously much, much faster growth
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Shimura Ken died on March 29.
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Shimura's death was likely more effective than any gov't announcement in persuading people that Covid19 is serious. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200402/p2a/00m/0na/026000c …
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