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> Not true, getting a lower dose of the virus initially gives your body more time to develop antibodies. Can you substantiate that claim with any evidence, pre
by Confiks 7y ago
> Not true, getting a lower dose of the virus initially gives your body more time to develop antibodies.
Can you substantiate that claim with any evidence, preferably by citing published articles? I'm not disagreeing, I just wasn't able to find any myself.
- joshstrange 7y agoVideo of Rishi Desai, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at Osmosis, Infectious Disease Physician talking about large/small inoculant [0] And From CEBM [1]: > The initial dose of virus and the amount of virus an individual has at any one time might worsen the severity of COVID 19 disease. Viral load is a measure of the number of viral particles present in an individual. Higher SARS-CoV-2 viral loads. might worsen outcomes, and data from China suggests the viral load is higher in patients [2] with more severe disease. The amount of virus exposure at the start of infection – the infectious dose – may increase the severity of the illness and is also. linked to a higher viral load [0] https://youtu.be/cFB_C2ieW5I?t=771 https://youtu.be/cFB_C2ieW5I?t=771 [1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/sars-cov-2-viral-load-and-the-severity-of-covid-19/ https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/sars-cov-2-viral-load-and-the-... [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30232-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...