Re: Aso calls for calm response as new flu infections reach 2514 in Japan
Re: Aso calls for calm response as new flu infections reach 2514 in Japan
Your Work is very important and thus I would like to send to you a strong message of appreciation, SN!
However, I must ask you whether in Japan are there updates or news about hospitalized patients and ICU admissions.
These informations are of the maximum importance for a correct evaluation of the impact of the pandemic H1N1 2009 virus in your country, as well as the possible therapeutical regimen adopted by health care providers.
Thank you, Ironorehopper, for your encouraging words.
Yes, I understand how important the information about the severity of symptoms is.
I try my best to make my report as complete as possible and confirm its accuracy before posting. (I would very much like to.) However, the media coverage has become so little and sporadic that I have to rely only on official accounts of novel flu from the Ministry of health and local governments, which are often incomplete and belated.
While I cannot confirm most hospitalized cases, there is no news or information of severe symptoms for 19 patients hospitalized as of July 9. No ICU or ventilators or complications or underlying health conditions.
Actually, I couldn’t find any hospitalized cases in Hokkaido (except the 3 cases below), Tokyo, Fukuoka prefectures and I am wondering if patients who stayed in hospitals for treatments, health checks or surveillance might have been counted as “hospitalized” but discharged later after very short stays eventually.
Three hospitalized patients in Hokkaido I could confirm were Indonesian students visiting Hokkaido as a part of International Exchange Program and they stayed in a hospital not because of their symptoms but because, I suppose, they couldn’t stay in their hotel.
In other cases, generally speaking, most patients are sent back to their home for home healthcare but some local governments and health care centers that haven't had any cases so far still prefer hospitalization to make sure nothing goes wrong.
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