Since the beginning of the pandemic early last year, administrative officials had plenty of time to put a system in place to protect patients like my brother. But they could not even do that. If things are left as they are, we will see more victims in the new wave of cases.

well Kaori, I hope you didn't vote for the LDP last time around.

a few weeks ago there was an article here stating that the gov didn't have a number on just how many people died at home from COVID.

They spent so much time debating how you could fax a hanko stamp to a hand written doctor's note during hospital business hours to permit you to get tested that they dropped the ball about a million times. Japan taking too long to decide and implement things?? you don't say!

This should not even be a questioned since the LDP won the last election. There could have been change if a effective opposition existed, it does not. Do not complain or ask these questions after the citizens of Japan had a chance to choose a new direction and decided to stay with the LDP who was in charge through the entirety of the pandemic. Japan choose and decided case closed!

Might possibly sound a bit hard, but in such a case of forced quarantine it’s of course not sufficient to just trust what they are telling to silence you and waiting at home or hotel doing nothing. There must also be installed regular visit system, very frequent status phone calls, video surveillance of the suffering patient 24h and of course last but not least , constantly further demanding of getting out from there and being transferred to a hospital bed as quickly as possible. My guess is, nothing of all this had been done in this case, otherwise he would probably still live or have had at least a final 50%-60% survival chance at any near or other city’s/ prefecture ICU with intubation, ECMO , special medication and usual highly professional treatment as a last resort.