It is a macabre question

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Coronavirus: Japan's mysteriously low virus death rate https://t.co/qFUdyNO1Ct

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 3, 2020

緩い規制で死亡率が低いのはなぜか？

It is a macabre question that has spawned dozens of theories,

ma‧ca‧bre
very strange and unpleasant and connected with death or with people being seriously hurt

という問いはマーカーブなのか？

"When we looked at the tests we were astonished... in all patients the IGG response came quickly, and the IGM response was later and weak. It looked like they had been previously exposed to a very similar virus."

He thinks it is possible a Sars-like virus has circulated in the region before, which may account for the low death rate, not just in Japan, but in much of China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South East Asia


Japanese people began wearing face masks more than 100 years ago during the 1919 flu pandemic and they've never really stopped. If you get a cough or a cold here it is expected, that you will don a mask to protect those around you.


Enclosed spaces with poor ventilation
Crowded places with many people
Close contact settings such as face-to-face conversations.

"But a recent study by Columbia University suggests that if New York had implemented lockdown measure two weeks earlier, it would have prevented tens of thousands of deaths," Prof Shibuya notes.

Japan has the lowest rates of coronary heart disease and obesity in the developed world. Still, scientists insist such vital signs do not explain everything.


Despite not ordering people to stay at home, on the whole, they did.

交差免疫、マスク文化、三密回避、緊急事態宣言した時期の早さ、肥満、心臓病の少なさ、自主規制などいくつかの要因が挙げられている。