That's kind of right. The shear number of viruses that begin the infection, and also possibly over the first week or so, affect how hard it hits you. After the first week, your body is producing huge amounts of antibodies against the virus and it's not likely a factor anymore. Someone posted a link in another thread about a commercially available antibody test kit. The product page showed a nice graph of the timing of the antibody response (IgM shows up after the first week and IgG later). Now I can't find it. Anyone have that link?
Thanks, this makes sense. I imagine cruise passengers and hospital workers are pretty likely to get a lot of initial exposure in a short period of time, but people who get occasionally re-exposed through day-to-day life are probably at much less risk.
