eli5 Why does our immune system not attack viruses during “incubation period”?

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eli5 Why does our immune system not attack viruses during “incubation period”?

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To attack the virus has to be spotted and that is difficult to do before the virus starts to do any damage, if the virus is safely tucked away in one or two cells, it really hasn’t yet provoked an immune response.