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TOP OF THE HOUR — Japanese health care facilities stretched thin amid surge in patients. — South Korea continues downward trend in new virus cases.
___ TOKYO — Japanese health care facilities are getting stretched thin amid a surge in coronavirus patients. The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine, representing such professionals, issued a joint statement recently warning about a “collapse of emergency medicine,” which may lead to the collapse of medicine overall.