Man in Japan with rare disease calls for understanding after being slandered online
March 1, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Yusuke Kida is seen working from home. He continues to fight his illness while teleworking. (Photo courtesy of Yusuke Kida) TOKYO Discrimination, prejudice and a lack of understanding about diseases sometimes causes patients more suffering than the illnesses themselves. This was true for one case that played out on social media. Yusuke Kida, 43, lives in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, and has myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The disease causes severe pain across the body, but its name is not well known and its symptoms are hard to recognize from the outside. He agreed to be interviewed by the Mainichi Shimbun with the hope to shed some light on people suffering in the same way.
千葉大学病院 コロナワクチンセンター開設 効果や副反応調べる | 新型コロナ ワクチン（日本国内）
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【独自】日本初の「コロナワクチンセンター」設置 千葉大学病院
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Japan, US doctors website offers vaccine info and entries on inoculation experience The Mainichi
TOKYO Doctors in Japan and the United States have launched the website COV-Navi to provide comprehensible information on the effectiveness and side reactions of coronavirus vaccines.
COV-Navi (https://covnavi.jp/) is administered by a group of some 30 individuals, including health care workers and researchers in the United States and Japan, headed by a doctor at Chiba University Hospital. The website contains basic information on vaccines and provides videos and presentation slides that are easy to understand.
Comments from health care workers who were vaccinated in the United States are also shown. Their entries give specific descriptions on their health conditions following vaccination, such as Pain in the part that was inoculated subsided after a couple of days, and I felt sluggish after the second shot. They also provided pointers on what to be carefu