Why does Japan have so few cases of COVID‐19?

The COVID‐19 pandemic has spread to many countries around the world, but the infection and death rates vary widely. One country that appeared to have kept the infection under control despite limited societal restrictions is Japan. This commentary explores why Japan may have, up to now, been spared a...

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Autores principales: Iwasaki, Akiko, Grubaugh, Nathan D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7207161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32275804
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202012481
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description The COVID‐19 pandemic has spread to many countries around the world, but the infection and death rates vary widely. One country that appeared to have kept the infection under control despite limited societal restrictions is Japan. This commentary explores why Japan may have, up to now, been spared an escalation of the SARS‐CoV‐2 infections.[Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-72071612020-05-12 Why does Japan have so few cases of COVID‐19? Iwasaki, Akiko Grubaugh, Nathan D EMBO Mol Med Commentay The COVID‐19 pandemic has spread to many countries around the world, but the infection and death rates vary widely. One country that appeared to have kept the infection under control despite limited societal restrictions is Japan. This commentary explores why Japan may have, up to now, been spared an escalation of the SARS‐CoV‐2 infections.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-04-28 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7207161/ /pubmed/32275804 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202012481 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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