TOKYO — Back in February, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed hope that the new coronavirus would “go away in April” as the temperature rose. While the number of deaths in New York, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., seems to have subsided from earlier this month, the total […]
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Nobel laureate says central command a must to beat pandemics
TOKYO — The COVID-19 pandemic shows just how ill-prepared Japan is to handle a medical crisis, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Tasuku Honjo told Nikkei. The Kyoto University professor won the award in physiology or medicine with former University of California researcher James Allison in 2018 for groundbreaking contributions to cancer therapy. […]