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VACCINATIONS

Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 1, 2022
Studies suggest why omicron is less severe: It spares the lungs
Compared with earlier variants, omicron may cause less damage to the lungs, new animal research suggests.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 1, 2022
New Year celebrations muted by omicron, but South Africa offers hope
South Africa, which first raised the alarm about the new fast-spreading coronavirus variant, became the first country to declare its omicron wave had crested.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2021
Sayonara and good riddance to 2021. Enter the Tiger.
There were many winners and losers in 2021, a year in which the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus once again dominated the headlines.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Outlook 2022
Dec 31, 2021
Could omicron be the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Experts say the omicron variant could accelerate the pandemic's transition toward becoming a disease that the world can manage more easily and learn to live with.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2021
Tokyo researchers work toward 'dream' COVID-19 vaccine that gives protection for life
By repurposing the vector used in the long-proven smallpox vaccine, Michinori Kohara hopes to offer more enduring COVID-19 protection against variants that have yet to develop.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2021
Tardy COVID-19 vaccine makers under fire for trials in developing nations
Vaccine developers at the testing phase now are seeking developing countries where vaccination rates remain low and the virus is still active.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 21, 2021
WHO sounds warning over fast-spreading omicron
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said it would be 'unwise' to conclude from early evidence that omicron was a milder variant than previous ones.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 21, 2021
EU backs Novavax shot as region's fifth COVID-19 vaccine
It is not clear yet how Novavax performs against the omicron variant, or whether a booster dose will be needed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 20, 2021
Most of the world’s vaccines likely won’t prevent infection from omicron
They do seem to offer significant protection against severe illness, but the consequences of rapidly spreading infection worry many public health experts.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2021
Japan to shorten booster shot interval for medical workers and seniors on omicron concerns
The interval between second shots and booster shots will be six months for health care workers and those living in nursing homes, the prime minister said.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Dec 18, 2021
Omicron rewrites the COVID plan for 2022
As the omicron variant gains momentum in Europe and the United States, scientists are rewriting their expectations for the COVID-19 pandemic next year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 18, 2021
Pfizer says pandemic could extend through 2023, studies three-dose vaccine course for children
Pfizer executives said the company believed that by 2024, the disease should be endemic around the globe, meaning it would no longer be a pandemic.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Dec 17, 2021
Safety and security are key to a new Go To Travel campaign
The prospect of a recovery from COVID-19 and a vaccine and pills that can protect against future infection has prompted the Kishida government to restart the Go To Travel program.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 15, 2021
Health ministry formally approves Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for a booster shot
The government plans to allow booster shots six months after the second shot whenever possible — a reduced timeline from the current plan of eight months.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 15, 2021
Omicron scrambles what we know about immunity
If this thing keeps growing exponentially and infects millions of people in a short time, health systems could collapse, even if a tinier fraction of cases are serious.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 13, 2021
Britain says omicron accounts for 40% of London infections
Britain said on Monday that the omicron variant of coronavirus was spreading at a "phenomenal rate" and accounted for about 40% of all infections in London so people should get an additional dose of the vaccine because double-jabbed people are vulnerable.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 13, 2021
Billionaire’s bet on Pfizer vaccine for China fails to pay off
Xi Jinping's administration has backed a nationalist agenda on all fronts, including in the fight against the virus.
Japan's elderly population grows to record 36.25 million
The proportion of people aged 65 and over has risen since the 1950s and is expected to hit 34.8% by 2040, when the second baby boomers (born 1971-1974) will join that group.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Japan jumps to No. 2, from sixth place, in Best Countries index
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Japan has experienced a postpandemic travel boom, with tourists pouring back in after restrictions closed the country’s borders to travelers.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
Second assassination attempt on Trump is latest jolt in chaotic campaign
U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a Ryan Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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