Miracle in Japan (COVID Youtube link)

Yep, a YouTube link. Don't watch if you don't want, but this one is really interesting.

Japan experienced a surge of Delta, and now they have nearly no cases.

Lots of things could have led to the drop:

- Ivermectin approved for use (12 days later, case rate plummeted)
- Japanese geneticists discovered the virus' error correcting protein (NSP14) that checks replication has mutated (mutation A394V), causing replication error - causing a "self-extinction" problem for the virus.
- More people in Asia (and Japan is not particularly genetically diverse) have an enzyme (APOBEC3A) that attacks RNA viruses.
- Mutation A394V has been found in 24 other countries (a good thing, presumably).

Most interestingly, and something I didn't know; SARS-1 is now extinct (doesn't even exist in a lab), and disappeared in 2003.

Worth 17 minutes of your time, IMHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GF0H9V_1g

Apparently a person posted Japan dumped their vaccine program for ivermectin on 10/27 which is now debunked.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL1N2RS1NO

No one in the video made that claim. Introducing a "debunked" claim in an attempt to "debunk" the video is a strawman.

Ivermectin was added to a treatment regimen, and may be one of several factors for their quick recovery from the Delta wave. I listed the others, for those whose attention span or time management prevents them from making it through a 17 minute video. Japan has a high vaccination rate (slightly over 76%), and is scheduling country-wide boosters for December.

I watched the video while on my rowing machine last night. 15 minutes of hard rowing with 2 minutes of cooldown, all while listening to an educated person discuss data from Johns Hopkins and other medical sources. Behold the power of multitasking.

Yes, just added the link and not to dismiss your video . I tried to watch, but just the sort of presentation I don’t gravitate toward. Vaccines are approved, but not ivermectin. Everyone has to decide.