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Thank you, because the journal article is a pretty long read and rather technical, if you're looking at the methodology and everything else. That's a nice succinct summary

Interesting. I've never had any Covid symptoms and am from Europe originally.

Yeah I feel my family is one, my wife is even a trainee nurse and hasn't brought it home, even once she sat next to a classmate for 4hrs who was clearly symptomatic with no mask, kids classes at school have been filled with it, and it's gone through all my work colleagues, still none of us have tested positive yet

That's like me. As far as I know, I've never had COVID. I worked for an IT Managed Service Provider, which is like contracted IT for other businesses, as a field tech from Nov 2019 to March 2021; pretty much the major arc of the pandemic. While we were in lockdown at home in April/May 2020, I was otherwise in and out of our clients' offices, often in close proximity to them, working on their workstation computers and other equipment. We were "Essential Employees" in our state. At first, no one, even clients knew anyone who had COVID, but I saw the "noose tightening." A client's friend or acquaintance or relative got COVID. Then it was someone in their immediate family. Then it was them who had gotten COVID. IIRC, I had at least one coworker out of like 13 of us who got COVID.

But I never did get it. Or at least I was asymptomatic. And I didn't take any hefty precautions other than masking up, using hand sanitizer, and washing hands frequently. And it's not like my masks were N95s. I either used cloth masks or those disposable ones. I even flew a couple times during the pandemic, though admittedly, the airports and planes were largely empty anyway.

I did get vaccinated as soon as I could in my state. so like March 2021. I did keep up with all my vaccinations; I've had two boosters. I was the first at my company and in my immediate family to get vaccinated. But that was toward the end of my time at the MSP anyway. My next job was/is an office job where we largely were WFH or Hybrid. Interestingly, I've seen more COVID among my current coworkers than my previous coworkers, even though my current coworkers tended to be more fastidious about precautions and getting vaccinated and social distancing and isolating and all that, while my previous were much less so (they weren't anti-maskers, nor anti-vaxxers I don't think).

I also tend not to get sick very often. At least not like colds/flus. I go years between cold-like illnesses, though I got sick a few weeks ago. According to a couple home tests, it wasn't COVID though. Just a summer cold. I was also in Chicago while they had the worst air quality in the world from the Canadian wildfire smoke. I'm sure that didn't help.

I had the same thought. The curiosity kills me

The study was specifically using samples they had before the pandemic hit. They did go into more studies (to try and verify their findings) that did include a vaccinated person, but they were mainly focused on samples before the pandemic/vaccines.

They go into the possible short-fallings of their studies, but nonetheless it does show promising interest

And idk if it could become something "injectable", but I think that would be the goal. Or to at least have a better understanding of how to make vaccines more effective/targeted. I'm not sure, but I've always said from the beginning of the pandemic, "I can't wait to see the studies that will come from this over the next following years/decades".

I didn't see anything in the study looking at that aspect; but we may see future studies that reveal more, if interest in those alleles grows.

The immune system really is incredibly complex, so you just never know. Maybe someone will do a meta-study that looks at some other common denominators among the sample groups.