A recent study on coronavirus or COVID-19 patients in China has shown that a high viral load can lead to worse symptoms when infected.
The higher your viral load is, the severe your symptoms will be
It has been widely known by now that observing and spreading social distancing can make a person's coronavirus symptoms milder if they do get infected, as well as reducing the risk as scientists say.
It can pretty much do this by trying to curtail a patient's viral load, which is basically the number or amount of virus they first infected with.
Having a very high viral load can lead from bad to worse symptoms and it gives the virus a jump start and can put a person's immune system at high-risk from becoming overloaded in battling against the COVID-19.
Everyone can cut back their chances of having an extensive initial infection by trying to stay away from other people that might be sick and observing the rules and regulations against close personal contact which people all over the world are forced to face right now.
According to Daily Mail, medical experts have said that a person who indirectly infected by touching surfaces such as the doors and their handles can eventually end up with symptoms that are milder compared to those who inhale coughs from an infected person.
The reason behind this is that it gives a person's immune system more chance and time to try and handle the infection before it even gets worse and becomes overwhelmed when symptoms start to rise. This is why medics who come face to face and have close contact with critically ill patients are more likely to get extremely ill because they are exposed to higher amounts of viral load.
It is possible to be infected with only a small amount of viral load
An infectious disease expert at the Imperial College London, Professor Wendy Barclay has said that "In general with respiratory viruses, the outcome of infection - whether you get severely ill or only get a mild cold - can sometimes be determined by how much virus actually got into your body and started the infection off."
She has also said that it is all about the number of armies on each side of the battle. Massive armies of the virus will be difficult for a human's immune system to actually fight off. These viruses multiply rapidly once they have entered the body as their way to make people sick. Building up in massive numbers that the body cannot simply get rid of and will take weeks.
Though this situation is pretty much imminent, there is still a chance and is possible to become ill with only a small amount or dose of the virus which can theoretically make it easier for the body and the immune system to fight them off.
