Cell-to-cell transmission delivers a large influx of virus to target cells, resulting in a high multiplicity of infection (MOI) (Agosto et al., 2015; Del Portillo et al., 2011; Duncan et al., 2013; Russell et al., 2013), which has been proposed to enhance viral fitness by overwhelming host restriction factors including Tetherin/BST-2 (Jolly et al., 2010; Zhong et al., 2013), SAMHD1 (Xie et al., 2019), and TRIM5α (Richardson et al., 2008), and evading adaptive immune responses including broadly neutralizing antibodies (Abela et al., 2012; Dufloo et al., 2018). Here, BST2 is linked to infection.