Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25086462-20160303194048/@comment-1387259-20160304171758

Kubo certainly isn't Oda. It's probably just the flu or something equally minor. I believe there was one time a few years back when he was hospitalized, but to my knowledge, the Japanese will send someone to a hospital for a bad stomach bug, where in the US we'd go see a doctor with their own practice and their own office elsewhere and pick up a prescription there.