Virus Outbreak: Fraught history haunts Japan’s vaccine rollout
AFP, TOKYO
A history of vaccine controversies in Japan might hamper the introduction of COVID-19 vaccinations, experts have said, even as the country battles a severe third wave of infections.
While vaccine hesitancy, and outright opposition, has been growing in developed countries in recent years, public suspicion dates back much further in Japan.
Japan has yet to approve a single vaccine, and vaccinations are not to start before late next month at the earliest.
People wearing masks to help curb the spread of COVID-19 wait for a traffic light to change in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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universal sound design: Presentation on Research Results on Difficulty of Hearing Speech Due to Tools for Preventing Droplet-Based Infection
[December 24, 2020]
universal sound design: Presentation on Research Results on Difficulty of Hearing Speech Due to Tools for Preventing Droplet-Based Infection
The Laboratory of Hearing Cognition of universal sound design inc. (hereafter LHC, HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, President and CEO: Shinichiro Nakaishi), a company aiming to create, through R&D on its high-resolution Sonic Brain® acoustic technologies, a society universally capable of hearing, has performed a joint survey with the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute (News - Alert) (hereafter, TIRI ) on Speech Damping Due to Tools for Preventing Droplet-Based Infection.
Dec 24, 2020 16:00 UTC
universal sound design: Presentation on Research Results on Difficulty of Hearing Speech Due to Tools for Preventing Droplet-Based Infection TOKYO (Business Wire) The Laboratory of Hearing Cognition of universal sound design inc. (hereafter “LHC,” HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, President and CEO: Shinichiro Nakaishi), a company aiming to create, through R&D on its high-resolution Sonic Brain® acoustic technologies, a society universally capable of hearing, has performed a joint survey with the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute (hereafter, “TIRI”) on Speech Damping Due to Tools for Preventing Droplet-Based Infection.
Measurement Results (Graphic: Business Wire)
The purpose of the study was to understand the difficulties present in hearing when using masks, face shields, acrylic barriers, etc., to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This was accomplished by analyzing differences in sound pressure levels when masks, face shields,
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Presentation on Loss of Communication When Using Coronavirus Masks/Acrylic Barriers
The Laboratory of Hearing Cognition of universal sound design inc. (hereafter LHC, HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, President and CEO: Shinichiro Nakaishi), a company aiming to create, through R&D on its high-resolution Sonic Brain acoustic technologies, a society universally capable of hearing, has performed a joint survey with the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute (hereafter, TIRI ) on Speech Damping Due to Tools for Preventing Droplet-Based Infection.
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Measurement Results (Graphic: Business Wire)