This is what you should know about COVID-19 recovery time and how long should you stay at home after you feel better - via healthing_ca healthing health canada news COVID19
By Andrew Duffy In the coming weeks, thousands of people in Ottawa are expected to recover from mild cases of COVID-19 — many more than are hospitalized with the respiratory disease. The city's medical officer of health, Dr. Vera Etches, has said that as many as 4,000 people could now have COVID-19 in Ottawa, and studies from China suggest that more than 80 per cent of those infected will recover without medical intervention.
The CDC says that symptoms could last two to 14 days after you have been exposed to COVID-19, depending on the severity of your case. If it’s mild, symptoms will likely clear up in a few days, and you should feel better in about a week. However, if you develop complications like pneumonia, it could last longer.
“More severely ill patients are being seen to need care and continue to have symptoms such as shortness of breath for six weeks or more,” Dr. David Cennimo, an infectious disease expert and assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical SchoolRight now, health experts don’t know for sure how long patients are infectious after they are diagnosed.
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