I’m a Covid researcher, but I’ve never tested positive. Studying variations in immune systems could lead to better vaccines
I’m one of the fortunate people who is yet to test positive for Covid. This is despite the fact that I work with live replicating Sars-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid) for my research, teach face-to-face at university, and have school-age children.
My fully vaccinated healthy friends of the same age were not so lucky, and some have suffered from more than one case of Covid in the past couple of years. What does this reveal about my immune system?
Dr Zania Stamataki is a senior lecturer and researcher in viral immunology at the University of Birmingham
