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"Equal viral load" can be rather misleading because it refers to peak measure at one point in time and in one spot (in "the nose", more precisely by nasopharyngeal probe.) There are a couple of counterpoints to this:
At least, in monkey [models] of re-infections with SARS-CoV-2, there's differential response in the nose and in the lungs ...
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I am not a doctor, nor medical scientist. But I have read this article from pubmed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32653658/ which leads to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346807/ . As you may read at the end of:
As is well known, preexisting antibodies, memory B cells, and memory T cells are three key components against viral reinfection. ...
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