Japan worries about shortage of key chemicals for COVID-19 tests

It’s not as if the government could possibly have seen this crisis coming, is it?!!

Abe and his government cronies are making teenagers who leave their homework until Sunday night look good.

Found an interesting article, ever heard of Dr Judy Mikovits ?

Watch this https://plandemicmovie.com/ form your own opinion

Due also to a lack of human resources and advanced preparations, the number of PCR tests done in Japan has been very low.

No. The biggest reason for the low test numbers in Japan has been the strict guidelines, which have made it quite difficult to get tested.

Due also to a lack of human resources and advanced preparations, the number of PCR tests done in Japan has been very low.

The ministry has resisted using Private test labs and some universities for some unknown reason yet turnaround and complain about shortage of manpower which is completely false. I feel the reason for not allowing the private sector is because the ministry will lose its ability to maintain a strict control of data.

@Bjorn Tomention it is a very interesting video.

Over-reporting = money. It definitely worked for S.Korea. They are now actually exporting test kits.

Kudos Bjorn.

I am now reading a Kindle version of the book co-authored by Mikovits ... and what she has to say about corruption in science, matches my boots-on-the-ground observation of the petty politics of academia in Japan, as well as the pettiness author Marc Freidman pointed out behind the Nobel Prize nominations in the sciences.

Science today, like institutionalized religions of the past, has been reduced to little more than a cherry picking tool by those with less than noble personal ambitions.

I know a lot of people here, especially politicians, like to just pray things away and hope for the best, and then panic when it doesn't work that way, but have they honestly never heard of preparation? especially given that this virus was known about since last December, and people were warned this could happen, there is no excuse for not having enough of the ingredients unless they were never planning to do many tests to begin with.

The RNA purification reagents did not became scarce just recently, once the pandemic took strength around the world and RT-PCR appeared to be the golden standard for testing, kits began increasing the price and becoming scarce. Laboratories not related to coronavirus research but that use RNA have been struggling because of this (the same as with ethanol, masks, etc)

Still, the problem only requires a few days to be solved, there are many other products from different companies that can replace the kits from Qiagen, it is only required that some samples are processed in parallel using different products to see if there is any differences in results. Once this testing is finished the work should continue the same as before without any real trouble.

Over-reporting = money. It definitely worked for S.Korea. They are now actually exporting test kits.

What about China, the only other country to significantly export their kits? They under reported yet still exported their kits, so that argument is bs.

Japan could ask their neighboring countries for help, but the have P’ed them all off. Other countries don’t seem to have this dilemma. People had the sense to start stockpiling toilet paper months ago. Why didn’t Japan start stockpiling testing reagents for testing? Just in case, you know?

Japan's image takes another kicking.

We can't test because we're out of what now? Meanwhile every other country ramps up testing.

Related. we can't tele-work...because....too hard...mumble mumble...lack of security...mumble....

We can't enforce shut down because...more mumbling.

Over-reporting = money

I'm flabbergasted by this B.S. Reporting cases of covid 19 loses money in a big way. Each reported case has to quarantine themselves or risk infecting others. They can't work when reported positive. Therefore they can't make any MONEY! Many who are infected must be hospitalized. Guess who pays for that? The state who loses money with each patient. The more case are reported, the longer some businesses remain shut, the longer lockdowns and shelter in place rules are in place.

 It definitely worked for S.Korea

It did not. S. Korea actually boosted their stimulus package to 200 bn. Losing alot of money right there.

https://www.ft.com/content/54f5513e-c2fc-4062-acae-538f986a5f65

Overreporting would have made that worse.

They are now actually exporting test kits.

Seegene has actually been exporting test kits since at least late March. I don't care if it's Seegene (SK) or Roche (Swiss) or Bosch (Germany) exporting tests. If any company makes a useful test they should sell it to anyone that needs them and, yes, profit from their hard work. That's capitalism at its best.

188 PCR tests per 10,000 people

The article is completely wrong, there have been just over 180,000 tests overall in Japan. With a population of over 120,000,000 that is about 15 tests per 10,000 people, not 188.

@Tom Doley. But they did report lots and lots of cases remember ? S.Korea got infected later so they had to do better. It is not bs, especially not just because China doesn't export as much.

There is no shortage yet. The govt is trying to address that problem in advance.

This must be a joke. Japan source all the ingedients before too late.