Masks offer much more protection against coronavirus than many think

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11. Does science offer any guidance on the rate of growth of viruses following infection?

I'd bet we still don't know a lot. If a small amount is fended off by immunity, but a large amount is not, it tells a lot.

I seem to remember in the early 5 years of the HIV crisis that some reports indicated that people who thought they contracted a small amount of the virus (how or why they thought that - who knows) thought they had developed immunity, their body fought off the illness.
There was a story that tried to link smokers and risky sex encounters with higher incidence of contracting HIV. Did they ever follow up on that? Did doctors or scientists ever figure out if initial viral load was a factor in whether the immune system was overwhelmed, or if it rose to the occasion?

The public needs information, damn it. Filtered Fauci is muzzled, he can't say anything other than 'wear a mask'. He knows far far far more than he is allowed to tell the American people, and we've paid his salary for 30+ years! We deserve better than the slop Trump is throwing at us!