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「生命の危機だ!」ニューヨークタイムズが「酷い日本、多くの人が危険なのに検査しない政府」と報道!
2020-03-02 21:13:56
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【「日本人の生命危機だ!」ニューヨークタイムズが「酷くなる日本、多くの人が危険に晒されながら、ほとんど検査されず」➠日本マスコミ忖度しても世界中メディアが報じる真実】
2月29日にニューヨークタイムズが、日本政府のコロナウイルス感染でのPCR検査をしていないことを以下の様ぬ指摘し、非常に危険な日本だと報道したのだーー。
【日本では、コロナウイルス感染症にさらせれているが、感染検査テストされず】
コロナウイルスは高齢者にとって特に危険ですが、日本の当局はそれに対するPCR検査に厳しい制約を課している。
韓国の1日1万件検査とは対照的に、PCR検査に厳しい制約を課
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In Graying Japan, Many Are Vulnerable but Few Are Being Tested
コロナウイルスは高齢者にとって特に危険ですが、日本の当局はそれに対するテストに関して厳しい制約を維持しています。
Japan has the highest proportion of elderly people in the world.
日本は世界で最も高齢者の割合が高い国です。クレジット...Behrouz Mehri / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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東京—東京都心の老人ホームであるマイホーム晴海は封鎖中です。
ボランティア、サービス提供者、さらには家族も、コロナウイルスの拡散に対してセンターを封印することを望んで、追い出されます。従業員がマスクを着用し、絶えず手を洗ってあらゆる表面を消毒しているため、危機感が家に広まっていると、その副所長である岩崎久美は述べた。
それは生死の使命です。ウイルスは、はるかに高い割合で高齢者を殺します。全国で報告されている症例数は着実に230 人に 増え、主に80年代の人々で11人が死亡しているため、この戦いは日本全国で行われています。世界的には、ほぼ3,000人が亡くなりました。その大多数は中国です。
感染の急増を経験した韓国やイタリアなど、人口が高齢化している他の国も深刻な課題に直面しています。これらの2か国は、専門家が推奨するとおりのことを行っています。彼らは、多くの人々をテストするために迅速に動き、他の人々から治療され隔離されるようになりました。
しかし、数週間の注意を払った後、日本政府はより積極的な行動をとり始めたばかりで、最も顕著なのは1か月間学校を閉鎖することです。しかし、このステップは、しばしば重度の肺炎を発症する脆弱な高齢者ではなく、感染時に軽度の症状しか示さないか、まったく現れない若者を対象としています。
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その間、当局者はウイルスの検査に対する厳しい制約を維持してきたため、高齢者へのリスクについての懸念が増しただけです。
韓国は1日10,000件以上のテストを実施しています。対照的に、日本はそのほんのわずかな部分しか実行していません。さらに、日本の当局は、高齢患者が少なくとも2日間(他のほとんどの場合は4日間)発熱している場合にのみコロナウイルスの検査を受けることを推奨しています。
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That may be too late for many older people, said Masahiro Kami, a physician and executive director of the Tokyo-based nonprofit Medical Governance Research Institute.
“What we know is that older patients are the most vulnerable, and once they get sick or ill, they quickly deteriorate,” Dr. Kami said. “They should definitely not wait two days.”
He speculated that the limitations might be driven by politics, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to keep the spread of the virus from derailing the Tokyo Olympics. “It may be Abe or someone around him wants to downplay the number of infections or patients because of the upcoming Olympics,” Dr. Kami said.
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Whatever the motivation, given Japan’s large aging population — about 29 percent of its population, some 36 million, are 65 or older — experts said the country’s testing gap could leave the most vulnerable people exposed.
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“What you’re telling me is that Japan is a senior living facility at a larger scale,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. “That would motivate me, if I were the minister of health, to test more broadly and to open up testing.”
Mr. Abe promised on Saturday to make testing more widely available. Speaking at a news conference, he acknowledged that the screenings had been insufficient and said that the government would add the procedures to the national health insurance plan and expand the number of locations able to administer them.
Japan currently has the capacity to conduct about 4,000 tests a day, but it has carried out less than half that number on any given day since the crisis began, according to statistics provided by the health ministry.
That approach differs dramatically from those of other places in East Asia that have been hit by the virus.
South Korea, which reported on Saturday that cases in the country had risen to 3,150, has offered drive-through testing in Daegu, a hard-hit city, and other places, while in Hong Kong, clinics have begun to give residents kits that allow them to take the tests at home and send them to a lab.
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“You wonder, if they were testing nearly as much as South Korea is testing, what would the actual number be? How many cases are lurking and just aren’t being caught?” said Tobias Harris, an expert on Japanese politics at Teneo Intelligence in Washington.
Making the problem worse, only a small number of public health centers in Japan have been authorized to provide the tests, which can be processed by just five companies selected by the government, creating a potential bottleneck.
That has forced clinics to turn patients away, even when they are presenting serious symptoms like high fever, according to news reports and statements from the Japan Medical Association, which said it had begun looking into the issue.
Erika Tamada, 33, a nursery school teacher from Hyogo Prefecture who lives with her 59-year-old parents, 83-year-old grandfather and younger sister, said both her mother and grandfather had had fevers and other symptoms, including runny noses and coughs.
But neither of them has been able to get tested for the virus, by local public health clinics or by the hospital they visited. Ms. Tamada said she was taken aback when a doctor at a health center told them to “wash hands,
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“Most hospitals are not used to accepting such patients, so they can’t save patients who should be saved,” he said, adding that difficult cases leave medical workers “exhausted.”
“If they have many such patients,” he added, “it makes it more difficult for hospitals to treat older patients with serious conditions.”
Reporting was contributed by Hisako Ueno and Eimi Yamamitsu from Tokyo; Su-Hyun Lee from Seoul, South Korea; and Tiffany May from Hong Kong.
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It is a novel virus named for the crownlike spikes that protrude from its surface. The coronavirus can infect both animals and people and can cause a range of respiratory illnesses from the common cold to lung lesions and pneumonia.
How contagious is the virus?
It seems to spread very easily from person to person, especially in homes, hospitals and other confined spaces. The pathogen can travel through the air, enveloped in tiny respiratory droplets that are produced when a sick person breathes, talks, coughs or sneezes.
Where has the virus spread?
The virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has sickened more than 89,700 in at least 67 countries and more than 3,000 have died. The spread has slowed in China, but is picking up speed in Europe and the United States.
What symptoms should I look out for?
Symptoms, which can take between two to 14 days to appear, include fever, cough and difficulty breathing or shortness of breath. Milder cases may resemble the flu or a bad cold, but people may be able to pass on the virus even before they develop symptoms.
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Washing your hands frequently is the most important thing you can do, along with staying at home when you’re sick and avoiding touching your face.
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Keep a 30-day supply of essential medicines. Get a flu shot. Have essential household items on hand. Have a support system in place for elderly family members.
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The C.D.C. has advised against all non-essential travel to South Korea, China, Italy and Iran. And the agency has warned older and at-risk travelers to avoid Japan.
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Several drugs are being tested, and some initial findings are expected soon. A vaccine to stop the spread is still at least a year away.
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。日本の検査数は非常に少なく、今回の政策により高齢者の重症化リスクがさらに高まった。
ボランティア、サービス提供者の副所長である岩崎久美氏は、「その家族も、コロナウイルス拡散に対して、検査センターが検査を拒んでいて、、追い出され、検査されねい。」
「そして、従業員がマスクを着用し、絶えず手を洗い、あらゆる表面を消毒しているため、危機感が日本の家庭に広がっている」 と報道。
NYタイムズ、日本を批判した、以下英語版ーー。
【In Graying Japan, Many Are Vulnerable but Few Are Being Tested Feb. 29, 2020】
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/asia/japan-elderly-coronavirus.html
The coronavirus is particularly dangerous to older people, but the Japanese authorities have maintained strict constraints on testing for it.
【Japan has the highest proportion of elderly people in the world.】
Japan has the highest proportion of elderly people in the world.Credit...Behrouz Mehri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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The coronavirus is particularly dangerous to older people, but the Japanese authorities have maintained strict constraints on testing for it.
TOKYO — My Home Harumi, a nursing home in central Tokyo, is on lockdown.
Volunteers, service providers and even family members are turned away in hopes of keeping the center sealed against the spreading coronavirus. A sense of crisis pervades the home as employees wear masks, constantly wash their hands and disinfect every surface, said its deputy director, Kumi Iwasaki.
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