A disturbing but probably not atypical report in the HK Standard:
"Another netizen said he had left [Wuhan] with a friend. He said both of them were having fever. 'We’ve escaped the epidemic zone after taking some fever reducers. I’ll visit the doctor in Shanghai if my fever doesn’t go away a week later,' she wrote. She also wrote that they plan to visit the Disneyland before that."
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/break...uncontrollably
Originally Posted by
helvetic
Hoping it's a troll…
But if you remember during SARS, there were indeed people with fevers who feared quarantine and so tried to hide their condition or the places they had recently been.
There are definitely instances of people not trusting Wuhan city officials and its hospitals, and leaving Wuhan (or fleeing before quarantine lockdown) even with symptoms to go elsewhere for treatment.
Below is story from Taiwan (in Chinese) about person working in Wuhan having symptoms but returning to Taiwan for treatment. This person minimized transmission by wearing face mask for entire flight, avoided bathroom, and upon arrival in Taipei immediately informed airport screening personnel of possible Coronavirus and was later quarantined in hospital. She was criticized in social media as selfish to bring Coronavirus into Taiwan, but this is human nature self-preservation and fear.
https://udn.com/news/story/120940/43...0_pulldownmenu