Hiding the reality is not solving the problem

Bob W6CYX let me know of development of anti SARS-COV 2 vaccine in the US. Surprisingly quick!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-first-coronavirus-vaccine-for-human-testing-11582579099

Regarding the situation of this COVID-19 in our country;

We are at the last minute which determines if we could control the outbreak or not. There are a lot of cases which could not be traced as for the infection route. But our government is quite unwilling to provide even the RT PCR test for the diagnosis to the clinical facilities. Only 3000 plus cases a day could be tested at present even though they estimate almost 100,000 cases possible if the private sector of this laboratory medicine is allowed to be involved in it.

It seems the government wanted the world to deem our country as a less infected area. It was to hold the Olympic games in the summer and to do for China which told our government to minimize the apparent outlook of the outbreak. Their logic is no test, no patient. What a ridicule!

If the outbreak occurs nation wide, which is quite possible, the number of the patients will reach almost 30% of the population at maximum. If it is estimated lower, for example, at 10%, there could be 2 million "severe" cases. Of course, it won't happen at the same time, it could be a devastating burden to the medical system in Japan. The total number of the beds, including beds for the recovery or chronic phase patients, is only 1.25 million. As it is occurring in China, the medical staff could be infected with this virus, which results in reduction of man power in the medical system.

Hiding the reality of outbreak, what is our government is going to do? It won't be of use to solve the problem but is sure to aggravate the situation. It may trigger panic among the people.

Let's hope the vaccine above mentioned or clinical trial of various meds will turn to be successful in the very near future.