Japan's weekly COVID-19 cases rise for 1st time in 3 months

Nobody cares anymore

Nobody cares anymore.

I think the people who are infected — especially the ones in ICUs — might disagree.

Are we on the 100th wave yet?

Better close the borders again then.

Factchecker

Wish they would for a while at least, tourists are getting on me wick mate.

i guess this will be an annual thing with numbers being produced like we’ve always had with the flu during the winter.

Fighto

Ok, when are you going to post them up?

Nobody cares anymore. Until it’s “you” that catches it.

For those who are healthy and don't care about others, please note. I care, my son has an incurable condition that affects his immune system, my wife has asthma, my mother is 93, and my brother in law still has not recovered his sense of taste and smell back from when Omicron first started. I'm as healthy as can be, but I care because it's not only about me.

Dbsaiya

Sorry to hear that but that’s in your family. None of us can do anything to help their situation which doesn’t mean they don’t care about anything.

Vaccinated with compromised immune systems catch the flu.

In our (families) experience it has been nowhere near as bad as flu. My daughter and father in law were both taken to hospital in an ambulance with the flu years ago, none of us (including 85yo father in law) took medicine once for corona although I appreciate it effects everyone differently.

"In addition to basic infectious measures, it is necessary for people who have risks, such as the elderly, to consider taking vaccines," he said.

This is the key. I hope governments have learned from the previous mistakes. Like with the flu, the people seriously affected by the infection are not randomly spread across the population. There are very specific risk groups, as any more detailed data show. Sweden did it right, most other countries got it catastrophically wrong.

This comes right after the new developed in Japan Replicon vaccine campaign in October. Does anyone think it's a coincidence?

Sorry to hear that but that’s in your family. None of us can do anything to help their situation which doesn’t mean they don’t care about anything.

That is not true, acting responsibly, taking reasonable precautions is something everybody can do and that it can help a lot those with special vulnerabilities. For many people doing this is as natural as helping someone with a disability to cross the street.

This is the key. I hope governments have learned from the previous mistakes. Like with the flu, the people seriously affected by the infection are not randomly spread across the population. There are very specific risk groups, as any more detailed data show. Sweden did it right, most other countries got it catastrophically wrong.

That is also wrong, risks are present for everybody, the same as with influenza except more important, professionals in Sweden recognize they did not do enough to protect the population and corrected course and the worst affected where those where vaccines were unavailable. The only way to protect people with vulnerabilities is to have as many of the general population becoming immune, and vaccines are the safest way to do it.

This comes right after the new developed in Japan Replicon vaccine campaign in October. Does anyone think it's a coincidence?

Nobody does, the problem is that you are getting the causal relationship backwards, the elevation of cases was an obvious consequence of the change of seasons so a campaign to prevent the worst consequences before it happens is also something completely logical, this is like being suspicious about campaigns against fires happening just before winter when people being to use heaters.

That is also wrong, risks are present for everybody, the same as with influenza except more important, professionals in Sweden recognize they did not do enough to protect the population and corrected course and the worst affected where those where vaccines were unavailable. The only way to protect people with vulnerabilities is to have as many of the general population becoming immune, and vaccines are the safest way to do it.

This is incorrect. It has long been recognized that the young are at far less risk for serious illness and complications from seasonal influenza and Influenza-like illnesses (ILI). These illnesses (including the so-called novel coronavirus) primarily have serious consequences for the very elderly and those with co-morbidities, such as obesity, diabetes, cancer and so on. Even healthy senior citizens have low risk. It is only those with co-morbidities that have serious risk. Any honest caregiver at an assisted-living facility can tell you how a bad cold can take our cherished relatives from us when they are frail and near the end. This has been happening, sadly, for decades before covid became a thing.

This is incorrect. It has long been recognized that the young are at far less risk for serious illness and complications from seasonal influenza and Influenza-like illnesses (ILI). 

Which of course it does absolutely nothign to prove the risks are not present, just because one population have more of those risks it does not mean that for others this risk can be ignored. Covid for example has demonstrated serious consequences on children, from autoimmunity to coagulation problems and neurological development, the young are still at risk, and the experts do recommend to take care of avoiding infection including by vaccinating.

Follow the evidence.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9613797/

No, it is not, can you find any institution in the world that say there is no risk for anybody outside of those with special vulnerabilities? no? that is because the propaganda come from antiscientific sources pretending this without offering any evidence.

Negligible risk for those under 20. Right there in the literature provided.

"The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0–19 years"

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114655

Expect cases to skyrocket as Japanese businesses have adopted touch screens that are never cleaned instead of considering health.

I supposed we could go along pathologically disinfecting surfaces like door handles, shopping carts and baskets, desks and tablets, self-checkout machines, desktops, taps, toilet handles, coins, supermarket items that have been handled by other customers, and on and on ad nauseam. Not a life that many but the most OCD among us could manage.

Japan should be worrying about their economy than this.

Infection figures are have been really low and a one week small increase does not represent any trend.

Useless article in fact just creating fear mongering for the ones who take it for granted.

let’s wait a few weeks to see the trend.

Covid 2025 = bad cold or influenza.

Not good, but flu cases always go up during the winter.