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Mild Disease-Clinical Category 1-3
What do we do with mild disease which means clinical category 1 and 2? In diagram 3,
the bottom row is the day of illness. The mild COVID-19 patients have a viral response
phase. Then, slowly the virus tapers off, and they get better. This virus response phase
which can be associated with no symptoms, mild symptoms or pneumonia which
does not require oxygen.
Diagram 3: Diagram showing viral response phase according to day of illness for
mild COVID-19 disease
