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Covid-19: scientists are looking for people who have never been infected – LINFO.re

Since the appearance of Covid-19, some people have been able to escape the virus. Scientists want to identify them to look into their profile in order to find a better way to fight the disease.

Not easy…

In October 2021, a team of scientists published an article in the British magazine ‘Nature Immunology‘, making a call to recruit those people who seem to be ‘naturally’ resistant to the Covidreports Free lunch. But the task is not easy.

Indeed, while some were just cautious, others thought they had escaped the Covid-19, but in fact had been asymptomatic. Also, with all these variants, especially Omicron which is highly contagious, more and more people have caught the disease. The profile that scientists are looking for turns out to be rare…

Despite everything, the international study has already succeeded in recruiting 700 people. Scientists had screened more than 5,000 participants who thought they were potentially immune to the coronavirus.

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A matter of genes?

By studying the genes and other biological characteristics of people who have truly escaped Covid-19scientists could determine how the virus grows, and how it actually infects humans.

Among the hypotheses that would prevent these people from contracting the virusthere was the common cold which would protect against infection thanks to cells developed on purpose… And there is also thegenetic immunity.

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