With Japanese mouthwash skyrocketing in value, are medical supplies really so scarce?

Medical supplies are not necessarily so scarce. Japan due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic continues to worsen, the number of people diagnosed is also continuing to grow, for can prevent the new crown pneumonia epidemic is almost crazy to buy things. That's why Japanese mouthwash has been snapped up and its value has skyrocketed. The cause of this incident was a statement made by the governor of the Oban Prefecture, who openly stated at a press conference that an experiment had been done on patients with New Crown Pneumonia by a medical institution related to Oban. It was found that among those who participated in the experiment, those who used mouthwash with povidone-iodine four times a day had a saliva positive rate of 9.5% after four days, while those who didn't gargle with the mouthwash were still at 40%. The news sent the Japanese public into a frenzy to buy mouthwash. Many convenience stores, drugstores, and supermarkets that sell mouthwash have been overpriced, and even some mouth sprays and the like are being bought in large quantities. This frenzy among the Japanese public has allowed some people who have taken advantage of the opportunity to make a profit to seize the opportunity to sell mouthwash on the Internet at a price several times more than the original price. And as the mouthwash craze took off, some of the businesses that produced it followed suit, with their stocks rising. The underlying reason for the rush for mouthwash in Japan is not necessarily the scarcity of medical supplies. A large part of it was the growing fear of the growing epidemic of Canker Pneumonia, so when the governor of Osaka said that mouthwash was useful, people began to blindly buy it in large quantities. Although Japanese officials later confirmed that further research was needed to determine whether the mouthwash was really useful, the essence of the story is that the Japanese people panicked, so they had to buy it back regardless of whether it was useful or not. This is similar to how some people in the US went out and bought disinfectant water to drink after Trump told reporters that it was useful for the new coronavirus. Overall the Japanese people rushed to buy mouthwash causing the price to skyrocket not because of the scarcity of mouthwash but because they believed the words of the governor of the Oyabunfu. The fear of the New Crown Pneumonia Virus is causing this crazy behavior by people who are going to buy mouthwash regardless of whether it is real or fake.