CTS11 - The COVID-19 Experience – Japan

Speaker(s)

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  Takuya Yamagishi, MD, PhD

  Chief
  Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
  Shinjuku , Tokyo, Japan

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Katsunori Yanagihara, MD, PhD

  Professor
  Nagasaki University
  Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Sadako Yoshizawa, MD, PhD

  Associate professor
  Toho University School of Medicine

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

CME Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of MOC Credit

No CPE Credits

Learning Objectives:

• describe the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
• discuss the diagnostic strategies for COVID-19 in Japan
• describe the experience and response to the COVID-19 outbreak on a cruise ship

Presentations:

• 9:15pm – 9:30pm EDT

  COVID-19 in Japan - Overview
  Sadako Yoshizawa, MD, PhD – Toho University School of Medicine
• 9:30pm – 9:45pm EDT

  Testing for COVID-19: Antigen or No Antigen
  Katsunori Yanagihara, MD, PhD – Nagasaki University
• 9:45pm – 10:00pm EDT

  The Tale of Diamond Princess
  Takuya Yamagishi, MD, PhD – Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan