Patients seen from Jan 1, Feb 15, 2020
3 of the 4 patients had cough and fever on presentation; the fourth patients was noted to have CT scan changes which was performed due to history of exposure
Oseltamivir was given to all patients and all patients recovered (difficult to say if it was drug or if it was recovery on their own).
Between 12 and 32 days, all patients became afebrile and had two consecutive negative RT-PCR (diagnostic test for the presence of virus in the body). One patient had some remaining finding on Chest CT by the end of follow up.
Somewhat surprising is that it took up to 32 days to get rid of virus completely and that a patient may be a carrier up to 32 days. This is in contrast to commonly thought duration of up to 14 days.
Here is the link to the actual study.
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