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by tzs 2188 days ago
The infectious dose for most viruses is higher than that. See [1] and [2].

[1] https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_infective_dose

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It's a probabilistic process. 1 virion of any virus can infect a host, but for some viruses that probability will be vanishingly small while in others it will just be regular small.