Japanese woman confirmed as coronavirus case for second time

>A biphasic course has been described in many patients, with an initial illness followed by improvement and then subsequent deterioration. This worsening can present as recurrent fever 4 to 7 days after initial defervescence, new chest infiltrates, respiratory failure, or watery diarrhea. In a cohort of 75 patients in Hong Kong, 85% had recurrent symptoms after initial improvement. The authors described a triphasic course with fever, myalgia early in week 1, and recurrent fever, hypoxemia, diarrhea, and shifting chest infiltrates in week 2. Twenty percent of patients progressed to ARDS during the third week of the illness. Quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of nasopharyngeal aspirate in 14 patients with relapse showed peak viral loads occurred at day 10 after onset of symptoms, suggesting that the late deterioration may be due to the host immune response rather than to uncontrolled viral replication.

(Granted, the Japanese woman's symptoms disappeared for almost a month before reappearing.)

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)...

1. This was a tour bus guide. Someone who had almost certainly come into contact with people from different countries.

2. She's not the first patient to relapse.

In my personal opinion living and working here, this society is very slow to change and things that could greatly assist in slowing the spread, such as adopting a Work From Home policy, will only occur once it's too late. Almost no one is allowed to work from home here, even those with office/tech jobs that can completely be done remotely with no issues. In addition, workers are granted an incredibly small amount of days off, and most would rather get onto their very crowded trains and commute into the office even when unwell as opposed to taking one of their limited days off.

All that being said I'm not freaking out about it the way most people here are, but I wish companies would react a bit faster and change their work culture to accommodate the very easy things that could be done so people can limit their interactions with others when something like this is occurring. You can pretty much guarantee that one person with the virus getting onto a sardine can train during their morning commute is going to infect several other people in the process, and no amount of face masks the people here are so fond of will do anything to keep an infection at bay.

Edit: lots of downvotes but that was a serious question.

Normally if you get sick, and it develops into bronchitis, the doctor just prescribes you some antibiotics, the ZPack. Has that not helped in this situation?

One possible positive if there is such a thing is that if "Wuhan Fever" becomes a pandemic that kills off a large enough portion of the global population maybe it will solve the global warming crisis or at the least slow it down.