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Why do some people never get COVID while others get it several times, even if vaccinated?
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 04/25/2022 | Danielle Echeverria

Posted on 04/25/2022 6:05:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

There are many people who have never gotten COVID-19, despite repeated exposure. At the other extreme, there are lots who’ve gotten sick from the coronavirus more than once, despite being vaccinated and even boosted.

Do we know why?

A lot of factors are at play, experts said, including genetics and variations in immune response. Scientists are working towards finding a clear answer.

Are some people genetically immune to COVID?

There’s a difference between people who can never catch COVID, despite exposure, and those who are able to clear it out of their systems without ever knowing they had it. If this second category of people tested regularly, they might show positive for a day or two. Different factors are likely at play between the two groups.

"It’s so messy,” Dr. Julie Parsonnet, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford University. “We don’t know how to differentiate between whether you’re just lucky, really careful or if genetically something is different.”

In one study, conducted in early 2021 and known as the human challenge study, 36 healthy young adult volunteers — none of whom had been vaccinated or previously infected — were deliberately given the virus that causes COVID-19 in their noses and tested frequently afterward to track infection. Remarkably, nearly half never got infected at all.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; immunesystem; vaccination
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To: The Louiswu

Ditto that!!


41 posted on 04/25/2022 6:57:26 AM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Osage Orange

Some folks actually believe getting a covid shot can make you more susceptible to getting covid.

Every day I hear or read something that confirms my decision to refuse these little tested experimental treatments was the absolute correct one and today is no different.

I’ll stick with my exercise, vitamin/supplement regimen backed up with some common sense hygiene practices.....I’m good.


42 posted on 04/25/2022 7:01:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: SeekAndFind
I have never isolated and am in daily contact with medium to large groups, including family and class reunions.

I can't claim a superior immune system, because I've had 22 lymph nodes removed.

I will remain unvaxed.

I have always taken the right supplements and expanded the menu since Covid.

44 posted on 04/25/2022 7:07:59 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“We are the CLUELESS, allowing ourselves to be led by idiots.”

You got that right!


45 posted on 04/25/2022 7:09:54 AM PDT by icclearly
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To: SeekAndFind

I took the VA Pfizer and Moderna vac’s and take lots of supplements including Vit D, E, Bs, Multi’s, optical vit’s, triple joint 2x daily, etc. I have been down with colds off and on, but no COVID. My entire family has had COVID and it missed me entirely at age 67. I would say it is Vit D, Zinc, etc., and our Government knew this from the start - COVID-19 Shots are just corporate welfare and if the IRS audited the Senate and Congress and their immediate staff’s we would be privy to seeing how the elected officials all cashed in on this scam.


46 posted on 04/25/2022 7:15:14 AM PDT by Jumper ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

My immune system is compromised due to meds I take yet never got covid. I also rarely get colds.


47 posted on 04/25/2022 7:25:34 AM PDT by roving
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To: V_TWIN

None of my family members was vaxxed.

My husband, two eldest children, and I all worked on the front lines during COVID.

It came through our house in January, 2020. I brought it home. My husband and eldest son never had so much as a sniffle. My two youngest were sick for 3 days. I was so sick, I was hospitalized twice.

Omnicron came through in January of 2022. We were all sick for 10 to 14 days each. Our systems were all weakened because of pneumonia the month prior.

It does hit people differently. I know folks who never displayed symptoms. I know people who lost family to it before and after the jab.


48 posted on 04/25/2022 7:30:03 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What completely ASTONISHES me is the amount of so-called ‘research’ and ‘studies’ into the whys and wherefores of Covid have suddenly popped up, in just these 2.5 years, when we STILL can’t see all the pharma test data used to justify the FDA to approve the vaccines.


49 posted on 04/25/2022 7:33:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

Folks,

It comes down to the fact that each of us is unique. Think of the amazing fact that each of us has different finger prints. How is that even possible?

We are unique in our genetics, our environment, nutrition, etc.

We are not and have never been a one size fits all. But our government wants to treat us all the same.

Statistics only works in very controlled situations like manufacturing. It does not work that way with people.


50 posted on 04/25/2022 7:36:04 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: V_TWIN

Strong, unaltered, God given immune systems vs weakened, with gene therapy immune systems.


51 posted on 04/25/2022 7:38:44 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: V_TWIN

Yes...margarine. They had to hawk that crap. Well...it was a great commercial if I still remember it!


52 posted on 04/25/2022 7:40:33 AM PDT by gr8eman (All is incomprehensible, but nothing is unintelligible; Victor Hugo)
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To: TheWriterTX

“It does hit people differently”

Totally agree.

That’s why a “one shot fits all” policy is so stupid.


53 posted on 04/25/2022 7:40:33 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: EEGator

Exactly!


54 posted on 04/25/2022 7:40:45 AM PDT by moovova
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To: cuz1961

I’ll be happy to trade you my medical bills post-COVID so you can run your mouth and call me a fraud.

I had COVID early on. My lungs post COVID are jacked. It depleted my adrenal system, too, until my doctor boosted it with hormones. Thankfully, I’m off the inhalers now, but this bioweapon took years off my life.


55 posted on 04/25/2022 7:42:20 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: gr8eman

Flies wouldn’t eat it...


56 posted on 04/25/2022 7:44:00 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

Because its not a virus its a poison. Its in the drinking water and in the vaccines.


57 posted on 04/25/2022 7:44:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: V_TWIN

We refused the shot. I had already been through the worst of it, I was not going to introduce something into my body to replicate that kind of response again.

Not just no, hell no.

I’m so glad my family refused.


58 posted on 04/25/2022 7:45:59 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: RayChuang88
I’ve been taking all the supplements recommended (Vitamins C, D, K, zinc, quercetin, turmeric, NAC, multivitamin, etc.) since the summer of 2020 and still got Covid again. I was pretty sick for 5 days but had a bad cough and severe fatigue for 4 weeks afterward, same as my first Covid bout. Even brought out the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as soon as the fever started.

I survived though, and just like the vaxxers thank the “vaccine,” I’ll attribute it to my myriad supplements and vitamins. Who really knows why some ppl live through it and others don’t...other than when it’s your time, it’s your time.

59 posted on 04/25/2022 7:47:12 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon!)
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To: gr8eman

It brings back a flood of childhood memories.......during a time of a better more stable world and country that’s for sure.


60 posted on 04/25/2022 7:47:57 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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