‘Please stop this nonsense’: Japanese decry boomer-era technology as hospitals file Covid-19 cases by fax

Japan’s stubborn reliance on the fax machine has sparked a Twitter tirade by a doctor, who railed against the legal requirement that hospitals complete paperwork on new coronavirus cases by hand, and then fax it to public health centres to compile statistics on infections.“Come on, let’s stop this,” said the doctor, apparently a specialist in respiratory medicine at a public hospital. “Reporting cases in handwriting? Even with the coronavirus, we are writing by hand and faxing.”He added that…

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