What Canadian scientists can learn from the mystery of COVID resistors.
In the early dark days of the pandemic, when vaccines for what was then still sometimes referred to as the novel coronavirus were just a hope, researchers around the world started noticing a strange phenomenon.
“It became very clear that there were people who were exposed without getting severe disease,” Vinh recalls, but the “burning question” was, did they just not have symptoms, or had they escaped the infection? And if so, how?in some Ontario communities, including Toronto, with for many, more friends and family members getting sick than ever before in the pandemic.
For the average person who hasn’t been infected, “it’s probably because you’re doing all the right public health things,” said Dawn Bowdish, the Canada research chair in aging and immunity and a professor of medicine at McMaster University.