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hat some of their sneezes will get to your mouth and nose and will pass into your system
Posted by LtMandella on September 11, 2021 at 11:50:59:
right, and this brings into focus the issue of "viral load".
It turns out that whether you get infected, and how severe the infection is, has a lot to do with how many virii you are actually hit with in a short period of time.
In infection disease parlance, this is termed "viral load".
Your immunie system is reasonably competent. Only when it is _overwhelmed_ by an infectious agent do you get syptoms.
So by blocking most of the viral load of an exposure event, the immune system has a much better chance of fighting off an infection, or at least signficantly reducing or completely preventing sysmptoms, severity, and duration.
I had a good friend who was one of the top infectious disease MDs in CA. (passed away a few years ago from ovarian cancer).