Every morning, each of these hospitals inputs the anticipated number of vacant beds based on the number of patients scheduled to be discharged that day, but the beds are filled by midday.

Hideaki Sasaki, of Okinawa Red Cross Hospital, who coordinates hospital admittance for infected patients at the prefecture’s response headquarters. Hospital bed occupancy on the main island of Okinawa…

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