Ex-transport minister Hata dies at 53, just before taking virus test

Stay safe, everyone!

Wow, that's pretty young.

whatta?! nobody deserves to die at 53

53? Now that’s a worry !

Number of PCR test in Japan is still not enough due negligence of previous Abe government and present Suga government.

Somehow, Japanese nationalists who believe in with eugenic thought or Abe government or Suga government have hostility against PCR test.

Not everyone can get PCR test in Japan unlike other countries.

Agree with Hideomi.

Hata had a fever for at least 4 days before passing on due to covid.

We will never know but his death may have been preventable if basic tests were done at the onset of his symptoms. At least his condition could have been confirmed and he could have been either hospitalized or under close watch.

Why is it so hard in Japan to get a test?

Oh - unless you fork out the money yourself for a private test.

Way way behind the 8 ball.

A number of groups world wide have very effective treatments for Covid19, with overall death rates below 0.05%. Whether the treatment is ivermectin or azithromycin/hydroxychloroquine/zinc, the one common point among these effective treatments is that they should be started early.

Early on in the pandemic, we were told to simply self isolate and only contact medical staff if we had trouble breathing (this is way too late). I hope that is still not the case, but we keep on hearing of people with symptoms not getting tested.

A number of groups world wide have very effective treatments for Covid19, with overall death rates below 0.05%. Whether the treatment is ivermectin or azithromycin/hydroxychloroquine/zinc, the one common point among these effective treatments is that they should be started early.

That is demonstrably false, No dosification of HCQ at any point during the disease (nor prior to infection) has any effect in preventing complications, it has been already proved. Unfortunately the scam that Raoult had with HCQ falsifying and modifying data to promote it has made health professionals take extra care to not support things with conflicting evidence. This will obviously make the repetition of the scam more difficult, but also make any approval of new therapies more difficult. Fortunately plenty of cheap effective drugs like dexamethasone are available and recommended because of their clear effects in treating patients, even if used after complications. It also helps proving anti-scientific conspiracy theories as nonsense.

Ivectermin? That will kill the Carona all right. Problem is it kills just about everything else in your body.

very sad that this gentleman passed away at such a young age and my sincere condolences. It was reported he had diabetes and other health issues.

No dosification of HCQ at any point during the disease (nor prior to infection) has any effect in preventing complications, it has been already proved.

Yes, we know, just giving HCQ does not do much, but the combination of HCQ/azithromycin/zinc is very effective. Raoult's group have had great success with it, lowest death rate in France and very low compared to other places worldwide.

https://c19study.com/ lists over 100 studies showing it works. Yeah, I know, you consider all those studies to be "bad studies"... because Big Pharma hates it when people find effective old meds.

Covid19 can be treated effectively, but the powerful and rich Big Pharma wants to sell its vaccines and novel expensive ineffective, meds so they will do everything they can to prevent people from getting the treatments they deserve.

If ever I test positive I would very much want to receive these effective and cheap treatments, but I am afraid they will not be available because certain officials were paid off.

Yes, we know, just giving HCQ does not do much, but the combination of HCQ/azithromycin/zinc is very effective. Raoult's group have had great success with it, lowest death rate in France and very low compared to other places worldwide.

No, that is still false, and Raoult only had "success" by falsifying and replacing real information with imaginary data that let him "prove" what he wanted, that is why he is now reaping the consequences of his unethical, morally not justifiable actions.

https://c19study.com/ lists over 100 studies showing it works. Yeah, I know, you consider all those studies to be "bad studies"... because Big Pharma hates it when people find effective old meds.

No, the problem with your link is that it compare all studies, good and bad as if all had the same value, that is another unethical action that is enough to disqualify the work as scientific malpractice because it is too elementary for anybody to do it without knowing it. Big pharma has nothing to do with considering this manipulative and misleading, statistical methods stablished well before the pandemic (or this century) are the ones used to say this is not worth the time used to type it. Real meta-analysis have already proved that the supposed effect was mainly because bad sampling, putting the patients at higher risk of complication and death in the "non-treated" group systematically (explaining the observed differences), secondarily unethical research done by Raoult also helped put patients in higher risk of death and complications without any need.

COVID-19 of course can be treated effectively, all countries in the world do it all the time, that does not mean that you can add the risk of drugs that bring no benefit just because you want. The supposed conspiracy by "big pharma" is easily defeated (as I wrote before) because of the widespread recognition and use of dexamethasone, a terribly cheap but effective treatment for the disease, something impossible according to that failed theory.

One of the best proofs that Dexamethasone is effective is that conspiracy fanatics have a terribly phobia against it because it proves the conspiracy as false, so they cannot even write the word and have to pretend it doesn't even exist.

For every disease and health problem there is people that want irrational treatments not supported by science, and every person trying to get those false treatments will always have their personal, subjective reasons impossible to prove, conspiracies are in the same bag as many other religious reasons, there is nothing new with that.

PCR tests are around 60% accurate depending on which mutation you test. Just saying.

@Goodlucktoyou

PCR tests are around 60% accurate depending on which mutation you test. Just saying.

Not true. 95%+ accurate.

No, that is still false, and Raoult only had "success" by falsifying and replacing real information with imaginary data that let him "prove" what he wanted, that is why he is now reaping the consequences of his unethical, morally not justifiable actions.

Are you suggesting that Didier Raoult is hiding bodies. He has a very high survival rate, as do others worldwide who are using the "Raoult method".

I don't know why you keep on bringing up dexamethasone; you're comparing apples and oranges. Yes, it is widely accepted that such corticosteroids are helpful in treating patients with severe/critical covid19. This is something offered later, not in the early stages. In the early stages, the infection is treated with the treatments I mentioned, while the corticosteroids are offered later when the immune system freaks out.

The attack on HCQ was a conspiracy by Big Pharma (especially Gilead) to sell their crappy product remdesivir. The conspiracy involved Gilead, Lancet, MSM, and government agencies to attack HCQ and promote remdesivir. The conspiracy was so obvious that it helped further expose their dishonesty...

The attack on HCQ was a conspiracy by Big Pharma (especially Gilead) to sell their crappy product remdesivir. The conspiracy involved Gilead, Lancet, MSM, and government agencies to attack HCQ and promote remdesivir. The conspiracy was so obvious that it helped further expose their dishonesty...

Whoosh! You’ve got to post a link to this one.

This is fascinating!

PCR tests are around 60% accurate depending on which mutation you test. Just saying.

Any reference for this? because it has not been reported as such in any developed country, much less depending on the strain, which is natural seeing how you can find literally dozens of mutants in every single patient.

Are you suggesting that Didier Raoult is hiding bodies. He has a very high survival rate, as do others worldwide who are using the "Raoult method".

There is no need to suggest nothing, he has been found to manipulate his data, systematically put patients at risk on no-treatment group and report as if they were symmetrically distributed. Anybody can have "spectacular" results if you make sure anybody with a chance of dying was on the group you wanted people to die. You should be grateful that anybody can warn you about following someone with such important defects, not trying to defend him, that could lead people to think you think unethical human experimentation and lies are justified to defend a false result. Doyou?

I don't know why you keep on bringing up dexamethasone;

Because obviously it proves that a cheap, readily available medicine can show actual spectacular results, save people and change completely the fate of people at risk of dying without being victim of any conspiracy that is supposed to hide precisely this. The timing of the treatment is irrelevant, according to the imaginary conspiracy it would be impossible for any cheap drug to be shown as effective ever, but here there is, the humble dexamethasone proving the conspiracy is just a lie.

And no, no conspiracy is necessary when multiple meta-analysis prove that HCQ has no effect whatsoever against COVID-19, remdesevir is at the same time known for low efficacy and high price that most of the time does not justify its use, HCQ is just less effective than that, so it is even less justified to use it. Do you have data that prove the meta-analysis not adequate? if you don't you have to accept it as valid, the supposed conspiracy (for which you have no proof either) is irrelevant for this.

what a tragedy.. very young to die. The Japanese have very little knowlege on how to treat patient because its hard to get tested and treated to begin with so don't expect first class doctor care if you cat the CCP virus as they too are probably clueless on how to help covid patience as Jgovt sweep the problem under the rug. Other nations have advance medicine because they been treating 1000 upon 1000s of covid paitients.

The latest reports are now indicating that former transport minister Hata was infected by the coronavirus.