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【コメント】These Countries Did Well With Covid. So Why Are They Slow on Vaccines?

Japan, South Korea and Australia have inoculated tiny percentages of their populations. The delays risk unwinding their relative successes. 2021/4/17

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/world/asia/japan-south-korea-australia-vaccines.html?smid=em-share

In Japan, where only doctors and nurses are authorized to administer vaccines, less than a quarter of health care workers have been vaccinated, though jabs began in February. Even a doctor giving shots to older citizens last week in Hachioji, a city in western Tokyo, had not himself been vaccinated.

Dr. Eiji Kusumi, the director of the Navitas Clinic, a private network of medical clinics in Tokyo, said his workers had not been inoculated. “This is the same as World War II,” he said, “when the public was told, without bullets or food, to fight with bamboo spears.”

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日本では、医師と看護師のみがワクチンの投与を許可されていますが、2月に接種が開始されたにもかかわらず、医療従事者の4分の1以下しかワクチンを接種していません。先週、東京都西部の八王子市で高齢者に予防接種を行った医師でさえ、自身は予防接種を受けていませんでした。

東京の民間診療所ネットワークであるナビタスクリニックの院長、久住英二氏は、従業員にも接種していないと語った。「これは第二次世界大戦と同じだ」と彼は言った。「一般市民は銃弾も食料もなく、竹槍で戦えと言われた」。

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