<story><title>50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic</title><url>https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2020/03/16/news/coronavirus_studio_il_50-75_dei_casi_a_vo_sono_asintomatici_e_molto_contagiosi-251474302/?ref=RHPPTP-BH-I251454518-C12-P3-S2.4-T1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warabe</author><text>I live in Japan and I experience mild symptoms since last Wednesday but not sure if my symptom is due to Covid-19. 
In Japan, You have meet two conditions to take a CPR test.&lt;p&gt;1. the symptoms with fever of 37.5 degrees or more continue for 4 days or more (for the eldery and those with underlying disease, &amp;quot;4 days&amp;quot; becomes &amp;quot;2 days&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;2. you have strong laxity (malaise) or breathlessness (dyspnea), or you have underlying diseases (diabetes, heart failure, respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease))&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t meet the first condition, so I was refused to take a test, but I still have chest tightness and consistent coughing. I wonder where the number &amp;quot;37.5&amp;quot; comes from, and 4 squeal days!?
If the article in question is true, these two conditions are totally meaningless.&lt;p&gt;So why is taking a PCR test so hard in Japan? Most people believe it is due to Olympic.  
The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, still believes we can hold Olympic as planned at this point.
To that end, they want to hide the case of infection as possible. I feel strong anger towards my government since they care more about Olympic than human lives.&lt;p&gt;At this point, Olympic will be inevitably postponed. I hope my government is smart enough to loosen the conditions and let people to take PCR tests immediately…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surfsvammel</author><text>I think there is a more reasonable explanation why they are not testing you. 
Simply because they wouldn’t do anything with that information anyway. If the test is positive they’ll send you home to quarantine telling you to call back if your fever worsens. If the test would show negative, they’d tell you, guess what; “please call back if your fever worsens, and stay in quarantine anyway”.&lt;p&gt;So the information doesn’t really matter.&lt;p&gt;In Sweden once they change tactics from trying to track each and every case, and who they might have gotten it from etc, to a a strategy more about just accepting that it’s spreading and trying to limit the spread in general, and protect the weak. Then they also stopped doing testing here.&lt;p&gt;Unless you are in a risk group, the test doesn’t really make a difference.</text></comment>
<story><title>50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic</title><url>https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2020/03/16/news/coronavirus_studio_il_50-75_dei_casi_a_vo_sono_asintomatici_e_molto_contagiosi-251474302/?ref=RHPPTP-BH-I251454518-C12-P3-S2.4-T1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warabe</author><text>I live in Japan and I experience mild symptoms since last Wednesday but not sure if my symptom is due to Covid-19. 
In Japan, You have meet two conditions to take a CPR test.&lt;p&gt;1. the symptoms with fever of 37.5 degrees or more continue for 4 days or more (for the eldery and those with underlying disease, &amp;quot;4 days&amp;quot; becomes &amp;quot;2 days&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;2. you have strong laxity (malaise) or breathlessness (dyspnea), or you have underlying diseases (diabetes, heart failure, respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease))&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t meet the first condition, so I was refused to take a test, but I still have chest tightness and consistent coughing. I wonder where the number &amp;quot;37.5&amp;quot; comes from, and 4 squeal days!?
If the article in question is true, these two conditions are totally meaningless.&lt;p&gt;So why is taking a PCR test so hard in Japan? Most people believe it is due to Olympic.  
The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, still believes we can hold Olympic as planned at this point.
To that end, they want to hide the case of infection as possible. I feel strong anger towards my government since they care more about Olympic than human lives.&lt;p&gt;At this point, Olympic will be inevitably postponed. I hope my government is smart enough to loosen the conditions and let people to take PCR tests immediately…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netsharc</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t it the case that most countries in the world don&amp;#x27;t have enough tests, it seems only South Korea does. I live in Switzerland and they are also restricting tests to higher risk groups, and people with worse conditions (which is a bit grim, how dead do I need to be before I can get a test?)&lt;p&gt;Either it&amp;#x27;s due to Olympics, or just logistics. Will the Olympics even happen if Japan is declared &amp;quot;OK&amp;quot; but many guest nations still have sick people?</text></comment>