According to current studies, the time from onset to clinical recovery for mild cases is approximately two weeks and is 3-6 weeks for patients with a severe or critical response to the disease.
Recovering patients with mild symptoms become low-risk around ten days after falling ill.
One journal revealed that traces of the virus could persist in the body for up to two weeks after symptoms had vanished, as the patients were no longer coughing or sneezing. Other sources have shown that the virus survived in one Chinese patient’s respiratory tract for 37 days – above the average of 24 days for those with critical disease status.
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, Two negative swab tests on consecutive days are considered the all-clear – meaning self-isolation can end, and a patient can theoretically begin having contact with others, including massage. But now, with the less virulent versions of the virus, we would say a similar response could be taken at ten days post-peak of infection
Massage will then have the potential to speed up your recovery process, and it is a beautiful medium to get rid of tightness from all the coughing, sneezing and muscular pain; or similar musculoskeletal symptoms of long COVID.