{"id":987645557,"date":"2021-08-14T05:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/japan-changes-its-covid-19-hospitalization-policy\/"},"modified":"2021-08-14T05:46:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T04:46:29","slug":"japan-changes-its-covid-19-hospitalization-policy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/japan-changes-its-covid-19-hospitalization-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan changes its COVID-19 hospitalization policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s policy shifts the prioritization and hospitalization resources allocation to severely ill or high-risk COVID-19 patients. Severe illness refers to&nbsp;the patient has severe pneumonia and needs to be admitted to an intensive care unit and receive treatment such as being put on a ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine. This policy shift&nbsp;could create enough capacity that allows patients whose conditions worsen can immediately go to the hospital. However,&nbsp;policy implementation&nbsp;will rely on the individual prefectures&#8217; decision&nbsp;towards the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2021\/08\/06\/national\/suga-covid-19-hospitalization-policy-explainer\/\">click<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Japan Times<\/p>\n<p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@roger-brown-3435524\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Brown<\/a> from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/5149754\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s policy shifts the prioritization and hospitalization resources allocation to severely ill or high-risk COVID-19 patients. Severe illness refers to&nbsp;the patient has severe pneumonia and needs to be admitted to an intensive care unit and receive treatment such as being put on a ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine. This policy shift&nbsp;could create enough capacity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}