Rather than luck, experts believe the answer to why some people don’t get COVID is likely a genetic one, scientists suspect | JewelTopsfield
The answer to why some people don’t get COVID is likely a genetic one, scientists suspect.But there are likely other factors at play, including exposure to other coronaviruses, environmental factors – or blind luck.
Tom Alderton has not had COVID, despite repeated exposure to the virus – including sharing a bedroom with his partner, Madeleine Holmes, when she was sick.Alderton was vaccinated, with his last booster six months earlier, but Holmes still found it strange he hadn’t seemed to get COVID at all. After all, this wasn’t his only close call.
This global team of scientists is trying to unravel one of the great mysteries of the pandemic: why some people seem better equipped than others to fight COVID-19.
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