A global hunt is under way to identify those with natural resistance as the world – apart from China – plots the best way to live with the virus that causes the disease.
Seven-year-old Clem Mercer likes footy and frankfurts. He might also have a super power: a genetic quirk that has made him naturally resistant to COVID-19.
“We’re trying to find the needles in the haystack,” says Professor Stuart Tangye, laboratory head of immunology and immunodeficiency at Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Our immune systems are not identical. Some of the many factors that vary from person to person include the number of hairs in your nose and the amount of antibodies produced.
This is one of the precedents that suggest it’s likely there are some people who have a resistant gene to COVID-19 – but so far there’s no proof. “I was working every day on COVID wards, wearing PPE that was far from the best quality, and was initially terrified of catching the virus,” Stockwell told theThe coronavirus spike is shown binding to the human receptor protein . Some people may have a genetic quirk that interferes with this process, scientists have hypothesised.
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