Sound like the oft-derided Japanese & #39;3Cs& #39; much? https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1260305939153985536">https://twitter.com/DKThomp/s...
GOJ info has been promoting this for some time: https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/content/000061935.pdf">https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/conten... It grew out of the focused & #39;active epidemiological investigation& #39;(積極的疫学調査) undertaken at the beginning of the outbreak by Japanese experts to get a richer picture of infection and transmission.
Raises the prospect that these experts were not ineptly twiddling their thumbs and extracted useful information? https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Coronavirus-Why-Japan-tested-so-few-people">https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight...