This article has some very important lessons from Japan, which has 45 times *lower* CoVID19 cases than the US.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lessons-from-japan-on-containing-coronavirus-could-help-us-reopen-safely-160105489.html<\/p>\n
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“In the absence of lockdown restrictions, public health guidance will matter more than ever. People want to know what the rules are \u2014 and why they should follow them.<\/p>\n
As for the rules, there are two clear takeaways from Japan. One is to avoid what experts there call the \u201cThree Cs\u201d \u2014 closed spaces, crowded places, and close-contact settings in which people are talking face-to-face \u2014 rather than staying away from other people entirely.<\/p>\n
\u201cSocial distancing may work, but it doesn\u2019t really help to continue normal social life,\u201d Kazuto Suzuki, a professor of public policy at Hokkaido University who has written about Japan\u2019s response, told Bloomberg News. \u201cThe \u2018Three Cs\u2019 are a much more pragmatic approach and very effective, while having a similar effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Three Cs messaging evolved out of its novel approach to containing the coronavirus. While much of the rest of the world has relied on testing, tracing and isolation, Japan focused instead on identifying so-called \u201cclusters\u201d \u2014 groups of infections from a single location \u2014 and determining their common characteristics.<\/p>\n
As Science recently reported, the country \u201cfound that most clusters originated in gyms, pubs, live music venues, karaoke rooms, and similar establishments where people gather, eat and drink, chat, sing, and work out or dance, rubbing shoulders for relatively extended periods of time. They also concluded that most of the primary cases that touched off large clusters were either asymptomatic or had very mild symptoms,\u201d which means that even widespread testing would miss them.<\/p>\n
Hence the need for a more sustainable, targeted strategy \u2014 one that now seems ideally suited to a post-lockdown world.<\/p>\n
The other big lesson from Japan is that masks work. Face coverings have been universal there for months, in large part because \u201cJapanese people [already] feel comfortable wearing masks on a daily basis,\u201d as Shigeru Omi, vice chairman of the Japanese government\u2019s expert coronavirus panel, recently explained. \u201cMany people are allergic to pollen, so they do this during the cedar pollen season from the beginning of the year until spring, as well as to protect against influenza.\u201d As evidence of the efficacy of masks, Japan did not trace any clusters to its notoriously crowded commuter trains, where riders are usually alone and not talking, their mouths and noses fully covered.<\/p>\n
Right now, the CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where it is difficult to maintain social distancing, citing grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations as examples.<\/p>\n
But like everything else in the U.S., mask wearing is already becoming politicized and polarized. According to the latest Yahoo News\/YouGov poll, a full 87 percent of Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 say they will continue to wear a cloth mask in public after lockdown ends; fewer than half as many Trump voters (42 percent) say the same. Likewise, 34 percent of Trump voters say the CDC\u2019s recommendation is \u201ctoo strict\u201d; just 5 percent of Clinton voters agree. And according to a new Morning Consult poll, 33 percent of adults who strongly approve of Trump\u2019s job performance now say that masks are not effective at preventing the spread of coronavirus \u2014 up from 12 percent in early April.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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