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It makes intuitive sense that a face covering would reduce the viral load one is exposed to. I've heard of other studies that have shown that the degree of viru
by rosywoozlechan 6y ago
It makes intuitive sense that a face covering would reduce the viral load one is exposed to. I've heard of other studies that have shown that the degree of virus exposure affects outcomes. Those involved exposure time and exposure distance to symptomatic patients with COVID-19. If a face covering reduces the viral load you get exposed to, seems like it would have the same effect as getting a lower dose exposure due to being a greater distance away or because of a reduced exposure time with a contagious individual. I hope more research supports the benefits of masks as it sounds like good news.
- 2muchcoffeeman 6y agoThe viral load thing came up in some podcast I was listening too. So experiments were done with the flu Or cold virus and a smaller load resulted in a less severe infection. They obviously can’t repeat the experiment with COVID. They suspect the same thing happens but they aren’t sure. Oh the off chance it really is true, I’m wearing a mask!
- istorical 6y agowould be great if someone can find them, but pretty sure there was a study done during the SARS 1 outbreak in the Canadian hospital that attempted to demonstrate that physical proximity to severe cases (and highly symptomatic individuals?) was correlated to viral load and further correlated to severity of illness. At least I saw people early on in Novel Coronavirus days of Jan/Feb speculating about the meaning of said study.
- exolymph 6y ago> It makes intuitive sense that a face covering would reduce the viral load one is exposed to. I've been astounded and dismayed by people's ability to reason themselves out of this obvious conclusion.