{"id":16169,"date":"2021-12-21T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=16169"},"modified":"2021-12-21T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:24:21","slug":"the-riddle-of-japans-dramatic-drop-in-covid-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=16169","title":{"rendered":"The riddle of Japan&#8217;s dramatic drop in COVID numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The turnaround came in the wake of a fifth wave of infections that peaked in August. Japan is trying to figure out why its COVID-19 case numbers and fatalities have plummeted.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2021\/12\/20\/1065159384\/the-riddle-of-japans-dramatic-drop-in-covid-numbers\">The riddle of Japan&#8217;s dramatic drop in COVID numbers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The turnaround came in the wake of a fifth wave of infections&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[169,378,42,501],"class_list":["post-16169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-jab","tag-japan","tag-masks","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}