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Japan Avoids Major Coronavirus Crisis Among Elderly Despite Having World’s Oldest Population.
Washington Post (8/29, Denyer, Kashiwagi) reported that while “Japan has the world’s oldest population, with an average age of 47 and a life expectancy of more than 81 years,” it has nevertheless “recorded [only] 1,225 deaths from COVID-19...compared with nearly 180,000 in the United States.” Moreover, “in Japan, 14 percent of the deaths were in eldercare facilities...compared with more than 40 percent in the United States, despite a lower proportion of U.S.