Dr. Oshitani is a professor of virology at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan. He has helped advise the Japanese government on its Covid-19 response. It all began with the coronavirus outbreak on a Diamond Princess cruise ship back in February 2020. Nine health care workers and quarantine officers who were responding to the outbreak on the ship in Japan became infected. An offi
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