jun kishaba comments

Totally pathetic situation. Shows how incompetent govt, politicians and medical community have had vested interests not to change this past year. What happened with all the testing? What happened with increasing capacity? Are we going to all wait for 2025 to get vaccinated? It looks like medical personnel will be busy and stretched out for a long time to come. One thing is for sure. There is no crisis mgmt in the govt for pandemics!

Pls check out this article/video clip of new treatment in the U.S. below:

video clip: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6141138603001/#sp=show-clips

article: https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-plasma-therapy-showing-excellent-results-against-coronavirus

Its an immunoglobulin plasma therapy which is already common in Japan too. Takeda pharmaceuticals has the technology already. If it can get ready in 4 weeks in the u.s. i dont see why Takeda cant replicate it quickly.

I am trying to understand the reason for the gap between what PRC testing the japanese govt said was possible which is 6,000 per day versus the actual testing count observed, which is way, way lower than capable (see https://gis.jag-japan.com/covid19jp/). For example, as of 3/14, the actual tests conducted were only 859. Although the govt only tested approx 100+ daily from 2/16 to 3/02, finally ramped up testing on 3/03 to almost 3000+, you can still observe that testing is only less than 1,000+ daily since 3/03.

Is that gap existing because the Abe adminstration is incapable of assessing what the govt hokenjo is capable of testing on a daily basis? or is there something sinister going on to keep the testing numbers low? I understand these hokenjo are still using screening criteria such as whether the person was in Wuhan or knows of anyone who traveled to Wuhan or traveled overseas. i can understand that they are trying to prevent hospitals from buckling in case there are more patients, in fact, yes, govt must protect its health care professionals but it isnt helping if people with suspected infections move from hospital to hospital exposing health care professionals because their fever, cough persists. I suspect that Abe wants to keep the numbers low so that they can hold the olympics. Any opinions?