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  • An increasing amount of research is being devoted to the reasons why some people never seem to get Covid — a so-called never Covid cohort.
  • There are multiple anecdotes of Covid cases being discovered among couples, families or groups of colleagues who have mixed closely, but where not everyone has become infected.
  • This could be due to a variety of factors, ranging from prior infection with a similar virus to genetics.
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One of the great mysteries that has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic — and one that’s still being investigated by infectious disease specialists — is why some people catch Covid and others don’t, even when they’re equally exposed to the virus.

Many of us know entire households who caught Covid and had to isolate over the pandemic, but there are also multiple anecdotes of couples, families and colleagues where some people caught the virus — but not everyone.

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