Now here's some cutting edge public health policy that should be replicated substantially everywhere: https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASN4T73QWN4SUTIL045.html?ref=tw_asahi-tokyo … If you're sent home with coronavirus and suggested to self-isolate for two weeks, you get a care package with everything you'll need for two weeks.
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One of the purposes of that call is moral support. Another purpose is that the non-medical professional should Big Red Button and get actual medical professionals involved if Tanaka-san is obviously in distress. It's that second part which makes it institutionally difficult.
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"Seems sort of risky to have non-medical professionals doing disease diagnosis. That's both illegal and runs the risk of false negatives, and then we're *responsible.* So instead we'll do nothing."
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A bare-bones version of this is to send an SMS twice a day asking for a health/symptom update. Failure to respond > call > further investigation. Response or not to the inquiry is not a "medical" decision.
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