• Login
  • Register
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result

Japan’s Experts Baffled by High ‘Covid’ Deaths From Heart Problems Despite High Vaccination Rate

by Guy Gin
13 January 2023 1:00 PM

After three booster campaigns in 2022, the Japanese are now in a league of their own among mRNA consuming countries, administering far more boosters than countries that had far more coercive vaccination campaigns.

Japanese over-65s have done their best to reduce Japan’s 612-million-dose stockpile of mRNA jabs, with third, fourth and fifth jab rates of 91%, 82.5%, and 56%, respectively. But unfortunately, Japan has started 2023 by reporting its highest ever daily Covid death tolls. During the booster era starting in early 2022, each wave has been noticeably higher than the last.

What could possibly explain this? Let’s ask Takaji Wakita, Chairman of Japan’s Covid Response Advisory Board: “The cause of the rise in Covid deaths is hard to explain.”

Takaji Wakita, Chairman of Japan’s Covid Response Advisory Board: “The cause of the rise in Covid deaths is hard to explain.”

What about Dr. Satoshi Kamayachi, Director of the Japan Medical Association? “There’s a lot we don’t know, and we don’t have evidence.”

JMA Director on increased Covid deaths: “There’s a lot we don’t know, and we don’t have evidence.”

Nice to see an expert admit the limit of his knowledge. But there must be something Dr. Kamayachi can tell us, right?

Dr. Kamayachi, citing the rapid spread of Covid infections as one reason, explained that the majority of those who died were over 60 and many had underlying medical conditions. The direct cause of death is often heart failure or kidney disease, and he said that “thorough analysis is needed”.

Heart failure, you say? Well, it’s not like most Japanese over 60 have been injected multiple times with anything that causes cardiovascular problems, is it? And kidney disease is coincidentally a side-effect of Remdesivir, an approved Covid treatment in Japan.

Of course, Japan has been counting anyone who dies with a positive test result as a Covid death regardless of actual cause of death since 2020, but Dr. Kamayachi and the rest of Japan’s experts haven’t bothered bringing up the issue of attribution until now. In fact, they were more than happy to cite inflated mortality data to help promote the jabs. But now that people may question why daily reported Covid deaths are higher than ever after the majority of over-65s have taken the experts’ advice to get multiple boosters, underlying medical conditions can apparently be discussed.

But although he’s three years late, Dr. Kamayachi has a point. Although reported Covid deaths have been much higher in the booster era, far fewer Covid cases have been receiving mechanical ventilation (the grey line shows the number of ventilators (with ECMO) secured for Covid patients).

But even if hardly any of them have been struggling for breath on mechanical ventilation, Japan’s elderly have been dying in higher than expected numbers in the booster era. The national figures for December won’t be out until late February, but Yokohama (Japan’s second largest city) has already releases its all-cause death numbers for 2022. Somehow I doubt Dr. Kamayachi will call for a “thorough analysis” to find out the cause of the increase since August.

All-cause deaths in Yokohama 2016-2022

Although there’s no good news here for Japan’s vaxxed-to-the-max elderly, there is for Japan’s medical establishment: high numbers of Covid deaths mean the publicly funded Covid gravy train will keep going. From the Nikkei.

On January 11th, experts offered their on views reclassifying COVID-19 under the Infectious Diseases Act. In light of the current situation where the number of reported Covid deaths per day is the highest ever, the experts called for the Government to continue to provide a certain amount of financial support to cover treatment and hospitalisation costs and for securing hospital beds.

Basically, the Government’s selected experts, including Dr. Wakita above, recommend that Covid should be downgraded ‘gradually’, i.e., medical costs should continue to be covered by public funds rather than health insurance or out-of-pocket payments like every other medical condition. This might seem reasonable. But under the current scheme of Covid support payments, hospitals can be paid ¥436,000 ($3,370) per day to ‘secure’ a single ICU bed regardless of whether anyone is in it. And overpriced Covid treatments include glorified cold medications like Shinogi’s Xocova.

So let’s recap what the experts have told us. The cause of increased Covid deaths? “Dunno.” Should the Government keep showering medical institutions and pharma companies with money? “Absolutely!”

Well, what were you expecting them to say?

Guy Gin writes regularly on his Substack page, Making (Covid) Waves in Japan, where this article first appeared. Subscribe here.

Tags: Adverse eventsCovid deathsCOVID-19Excess deathsHeard ConditionsJapanVaccineVaccine efficacy

Donate

We depend on your donations to keep this site going. Please give what you can.

Donate Today

Comment on this Article

You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.

Sign Up
Previous Post

Global Warming Trend Slumps After Pausing for 20 of the Last 24 Years

Next Post

FDA Vaccine Committee Member Calls For End to Mass Covid Vaccination

Subscribe
Login
Notify of
Please log in to comment

To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

27 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

DONATE

PODCAST

The Sceptic | Episode 40: Rob Bates on Stopping Britain Becoming Majority-Minority, Tilak Doshi on Trump vs Green Blob and Mario Trabucco on Osborne’s Elgin Marbles Betrayal

by Richard Eldred
13 June 2025
1

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

News Round-Up

15 June 2025
by Will Jones

Green Council Branded “Absolutely Insane” After Painting Green Spots on Road to “Calm Traffic”

14 June 2025
by Will Jones

Pro-Palestine Protesters March Through London Waving Iranian Flags

14 June 2025
by Will Jones

The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions

15 June 2025
by David Betz and Michael Rainsborough

Did the Mainstream Media Cover Up an Eco-Terror Attack in a French School?

15 June 2025
by Steven Tucker

The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions

38

The Two-Stroke Engine of Brian Wilson

72

Pro-Palestine Protesters March Through London Waving Iranian Flags

29

Sir Keir Set to Launch Full National Inquiry Into Grooming Gangs in Latest U-turn, Following Months of Mounting Pressure

20

Landlords Face Higher Bills As New Net Zero Rules Kick in

17

The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions

15 June 2025
by David Betz and Michael Rainsborough

Did the Mainstream Media Cover Up an Eco-Terror Attack in a French School?

15 June 2025
by Steven Tucker

Oxford is Now More or Less a Quango

14 June 2025
by Darren Gee

The Two-Stroke Engine of Brian Wilson

14 June 2025
by James Alexander

As a Civil Servant, I Can Tell You Dissent From DEI Dogma is Not Allowed

13 June 2025
by Anonymous Civil Servant

POSTS BY DATE

January 2023
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Dec   Feb »

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

POSTS BY DATE

January 2023
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Dec   Feb »

DONATE

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

News Round-Up

15 June 2025
by Will Jones

Green Council Branded “Absolutely Insane” After Painting Green Spots on Road to “Calm Traffic”

14 June 2025
by Will Jones

Pro-Palestine Protesters March Through London Waving Iranian Flags

14 June 2025
by Will Jones

The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions

15 June 2025
by David Betz and Michael Rainsborough

Did the Mainstream Media Cover Up an Eco-Terror Attack in a French School?

15 June 2025
by Steven Tucker

The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions

38

The Two-Stroke Engine of Brian Wilson

72

Pro-Palestine Protesters March Through London Waving Iranian Flags

29

Sir Keir Set to Launch Full National Inquiry Into Grooming Gangs in Latest U-turn, Following Months of Mounting Pressure

20

Landlords Face Higher Bills As New Net Zero Rules Kick in

17

The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions

15 June 2025
by David Betz and Michael Rainsborough

Did the Mainstream Media Cover Up an Eco-Terror Attack in a French School?

15 June 2025
by Steven Tucker

Oxford is Now More or Less a Quango

14 June 2025
by Darren Gee

The Two-Stroke Engine of Brian Wilson

14 June 2025
by James Alexander

As a Civil Servant, I Can Tell You Dissent From DEI Dogma is Not Allowed

13 June 2025
by Anonymous Civil Servant

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union
  • Home
  • About us
  • Donate
  • Privacy Policy

Facebook

  • X

Instagram

RSS

Subscribe to our newsletter

© Skeptics Ltd.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In

© Skeptics Ltd.

wpDiscuz
You are going to send email to

Move Comment