Liputan6.com, Jakarta – It’s been almost three years since the COVID-19 pandemic lasted. During that time, dozens of mutated variants have caused more than 755 million confirmed cases and more than 6.8 million deaths have been reported globally (data COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update Edition 130 published on 15 February 2023).
You may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus at least once or even more. The variant of COVID-19 that never finishes mutating means that the number of people who have never been exposed to COVID-19 is getting smaller every day.
Even though there are people who have actually experienced COVID-19 but are not aware of it, there are still those who have never been exposed to the virus from China until now.
Maybe many are wondering, how do these people avoid the COVID-19 virus for up to 3 years? Are they immune? Did they continue to avoid the crowd and the outside world? Or is it just luck factor?
Experts also have yet to find concrete answers to these questions. Research was conducted in 2020 to understand SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and to develop treatments and vaccines.
However, funding and collaboration could not be maintained because of the emergence of other research fields that were no less useful.
However, there are several studies that focus on observing whether genetic elements are one of the reasons why certain people have never been exposed to COVID-19.
However, while this research is important, it must still focus on those suffering from this virus and the long-term effects it has.
