7 day average shows a doubling time of ~12 days - which is an attenuated Delta rate, and with numbers so low (400 cases today) could be a single jumbo jet (though 14 day quarantine is required if no negative Covid test within 72 hours - Loophole alert). Around the holidays, any one day values are not particularly useful.
Also, (my understanding, which could be wrong) is that Japan is not prescribing IVM prophylactically (at least not officially and thus not widely), so the real thing to watch will be hospitalizations...
It would end the pandemic. BTW, I wrote about this in April: https://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=4410
Yup! Watching Japan - still no sign of an omicron wave. . .
Actually, there is
7 day average shows a doubling time of ~12 days - which is an attenuated Delta rate, and with numbers so low (400 cases today) could be a single jumbo jet (though 14 day quarantine is required if no negative Covid test within 72 hours - Loophole alert). Around the holidays, any one day values are not particularly useful.
Also, (my understanding, which could be wrong) is that Japan is not prescribing IVM prophylactically (at least not officially and thus not widely), so the real thing to watch will be hospitalizations...
Came across a tweet suggesting that Japan has also emphasized increased ventilation and air purification indoors, too.
That's cool! Dr. Kory "Ivermectin is ivermectin." I guess my horse paste is just fine.