2021-05-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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'Medical system collapse' hits Japan as hospitals buckle under new wave of Covid-19 blamed on the British variant and doctors say Olympics MUST be cancelled
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - Covid cases in Japan's second-largest city jumped five-fold in three months
- Osaka prefecture had 1/3rd of Japan’s deaths in May despite only 7% of the country’s population, with 3,849 new positive tests in the week to Thursday and 13,770 total COVID-19 patients
- Doctors in Osaka have warned the healthcare system is now collapsing
...or at least 96% of the dedicated hospital beds for virus patients are in use, and they’re thinking of pulling staff from other wings...
- Beds and ventilators are running short, while medical staff are exhausted
- Doctors have now joined growing calls to abandon the Tokyo Olympics
- Only about half of Japan's medical staff have been vaccinated.
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