China’s population is falling for the first time in 60 years, but Japan has been battling its own demographic crisis since 2008 and provides a possible snapshot of China’s future.
As the mask mandate debate rages on, epidemiologists and medical specialists suggest looking to countries where citizens are perfectly happy to wear them to see how powerful the simple infection-control measure can be.
There is ""a really quite important cultural difference"" in Asia that epidemiologists suggest is having a dramatic impact on their daily rate of COVID-19 deaths.
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