I predict the Japanese test won’t see the light of day in West AFrica for 6m or more. Whoever is providing the current test capabilities isn’t anxious to lose that rice bowl just yet.
Ditto the Japanese anti-viral compound that’s already been produced in quantities for 20K patients. Fuji just hasn’t greased the right palms for that treatment to get widespread publicity that’s been given to ZMapp.
I predict this. If it does become a worldwide pandemic, Japan will be hit hardly at all. They will have the fast test, no qualms about cutting off travel and quarantining those who enter. And they’ve got 20K patient treatments worth of a compound that just may work. All because the Japanese elites don’t despise the rest of their countrymen and wish them dead.
I couldn’t agree more. Defendable territory. It’s why they embraced nuke power (independence). They got lazy, though.