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by drclau 2247 days ago
Can’t remember right now where I heard, it was in a podcast. Will return with the information if/when I find it.

An epidemiologist said that there is correlation between the viral load and the severity of the resulting illness in studies on mice. He also said something that surprised me, namely that the mechanism involved is unknown. It seems fairly obvious that it has to do with the exponential growth of the pathogen inside the body.