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You couldn’t use these syringes to begin with.

Govt wont procure them but the syringes can be used

but added hospitals are free to use them for inoculations if they have a surplus.

the pace of the U.S. vaccine rollout meant athletes may now be vaccinated even before trials and qualifiers for Tokyo.

Seems the US team is well in position to dominate the games even more

Of the 54 countries and regions that introduced import curbs on Japanese food products following the nuclear accident, 15 including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the European Union maintain restrictions

So only 15 now maintain restrictions.

But China and EU are huuge markets.

Sounds like a sound decision.

Not worth squeezing that extra dose if it would endanger thr lives of those for whom the syringes were originally for.

We have to admit it's a good play.

Thing is if the good guys offered this before, then the bad guy wouldnt have the opportunity to.

Dedicates time for fundraising as well.

Couldnt agree more @wanderlust

So thats how Japan will foot the bill.

I wonder how the other countries will pay for theirs.

Not exactly sure of course but anaphylaxis should have same defintion anywhere, life threatening allergic reaction.

Though I don't have enough knowledge, 17 cases out of 107,558 seems ordinary within the safe range.

Quick search for allergies in Japan says 3% have allergy to pharmaceuticals and 6% food.

17/100000 is .017% i think

This really makes me angry. Just gives fuel to the anti-vaxxer mob who wish to prevent us to returning to normality.

This is one of the reasons they're doing trials.

For me it's good that they are tracking it and reports what happens.

And as a poster above emphasized, everyone recovered.

Taro Kono told a Diet committee that 17 cases of anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially fatal allergic reaction, have been reported among the 107,558 health care workers who had been inoculated as of Tuesday.

The rate compares with five cases in every one million doses administered in the United States and 20 cases per million in Britain, though Japan is further behind in its vaccine rollout and it could change as more people receive shots.

Seems worse by a lot, 17/100k compared to .5/100k for the US and 2/100k for the UK

If it pushes thru at least detractors can tell friends abroad everything's so slow here in Japan the 2021 Olympics was held 2022

Same here @virusrex, thanks.

Was about to ask if those same diagnostics yielded same higher detection rates in other locations but moot now with yourvpost

Bad news for overseas fans who want to come but could be good for those living here because more tickets will be available

The U.S. has thrown out tens of thousands of viles with another shot in them because the FDA does not allow using the last shot due to possible corruption of the remaining vaccine. It is the law and very few people know about this tragedy. Who knows how many lives would have been saved...

If using regular syringes whats left in each vial wont be enough for one dose.

I believe whats not allowed is the pooling together of whats remaining in the vials to make full doses.

This is ive read a common practice with some vaccines but cant be done with particular vaccines that have no preservatives.

Pooling together carries a cannot be ignored chance of contamination or corruption

Staff members spent 104 hours in the office outside of normal work hours in November and 89 hours in December.

You have a rounding error, title says nearly 400 hours.

Yes @virusrex, dont wanna read the other article again but theyre probably the same

Insulin syringes are designed for subcutaneous injections rather than the intramuscular injections necessary for COVID-19 vaccines, and therefore have shorter needles. This means they may not work for some people, for example those with more fat on their arms.

The government's top spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, said it would be up to hospitals to ensure the vaccines are administered properly, and that the government does not plan to actively advocate the use of insulin syringes.

Ah not for everyone.

Good thing theyll start production of the long needle syringes soon:

The health ministry last week approved a low dead space syringe developed by Terumo Corp that can also yield seven shots per vial of the Pfizer vaccine but has a longer needle, with production ready to begin as early as the end of this month.

Wow apparently its not just insulin syringes. Heres something ffrom the other JT:

The health ministry last week approved a low dead space syringe developed by Terumo Corp. that can also yield seven shots per vial of the Pfizer vaccine, with production ready to begin as early as the end of this month.

The medical equipment maker expects to manufacture 20 million of the syringes, which were designed using know-how from the 2009 swine flu pandemic, in the fiscal year beginning in April, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/science-health/7-shot-insulin-syringes-covid19-vaccines/

Great title.

Officials dealing with COVID-19 working nearly 400 hours overtime a month

staff at Officials Cabinet Secretariat's Office for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control were in the office an average of 124 hours outside of normal work hours, with one person clocking 391 hours.

I bet if they used smaller and smaller syringes, they could "vaccinate" the entire population of Japan from a single vial.

No need to use small syringes for that, just dont fill the big syringes

Ok then please explain how you get 7 doses from a bottle that is supposed to only have 6?

Originally from a bottle of 5 doses.

Lots of wastage when using regular syringes, left inside the vial and syringes themselves, the so called dead space

In the recommendations of the vaccine it is specifically said to avoid these syringes

Hmm now im very interested as well

Hope this doesnt lead to pfizer relabelling the vials to contain 7 doses

Great news if true

More than 75 percent of Japanese oppose overseas fans attending the Tokyo Olympics, a poll showed Monday, as organizers prepare to make a decision on foreign spectators.

Article says poll is about overseas fans yet title screams categorical foreign fans.

But maybe theyre meant to mean the same thing, not sure

Has actually decided to try it out before i finished reading till i came to "The three burgers’ rice comes entirely from farms in Fukushima Prefecture."

What does it matter what color is the underwear

i guess same reason for uniforms but taken to an extreme. Same for hair color

“The schools that have rules about white underwear generally enacted them a long time ago,” 

But some still actively, strictly implement

Dont know about results past days if similar but low positive rate today, might mean a substantial proportion of tests didnt pass thru strict govt screening