Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass Testing?

Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by brenden2 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:37AM (#23283791)

Japan has pretty low rates of obesity and heart disease, that might be related to the low death rate from the virus.

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Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by lbeltrame on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:58AM (#23283982)

Or perhaps the virus did not make way into hospitals or nursing care homes. That's what happened in Italy, with hospitals turned into infection centers. And hospitals have a significant number of people at risk in them. Same for nursing care homes.

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Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by esyir on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:58PM (#23285451)

This is the country with the most dramatically aged population though. I'm rather surprised.

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Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by thonos on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:46AM (#23283861)

Yeah that’s a plausible theory

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