Above average immunity sort of possible?

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I was Googling about this (mainly after watching Pandemic and seeing Gwyneth Paltrows husband was immune for an unknown reason). Apparently there’s a high immune level amongst people who had it in 2020 and then had mRNA vaccines. I didn’t - I think I had it Feb 2020 but then had AZ vaccines. However, I haven’t had it since (as far as I know via three PCR and regular lat flow testing) despite two of the kids, my husband and eh a king car journey with someone who tested positive that day. Weird? Or just one of those things?

I had it in 2020 and have not had it since despite consistently being in countless "high risk" situations where you would have thought that anyone would have got it as I do a risky job with no possible PPE. I've only recently had two pfizers, so I don't know if this counts because you mentioned that it was having it in 2020 + the vaccines. But I had it in the first few weeks of this all really kicking off, before any lockdowns and have not had it since.

That’s what made me wonder - my non scientific theory is that having it early made some form of fab immunity? At the time my mum wanted to take me to a and e (we had about two cases locally, were early to be identified as having cases) and was joking was it that new thing haha. Wish I had had it confirmed one way or another now!

I had it really mildly though. I wasn't tested at the time but the person I got it from was. I have a lot of health conditions and so all my consultants at the time agreed unequivocally that I had had it. I honestly feel it's almost impossible that I've not had it any time since due to the situations I've been in, but as I've twice weekly tested....

Yes weird isn’t it? Unless the LFTs just don’t always pick it up

I do a risky job with no possible PPE
I often wonder whether frequent low level exposure helps to boost immunity?
So if you've been infected and built some antibodies /immunity and then your body meets the virus again and fights it off, thus replenishing your antibodies.
It seems logical to me but I have no idea of any scientific basis.

@Upsky

I do a risky job with no possible PPE I often wonder whether frequent low level exposure helps to boost immunity? So if you've been infected and built some antibodies /immunity and then your body meets the virus again and fights it off, thus replenishing your antibodies. It seems logical to me but I have no idea of any scientific basis.

The number of times it's gone through my workplace is uncountable. But there are indeed a lot of us who just have never got it.

My sil has never has chicken pox and looks like its been passed down to both her children. They have never had it despite it being rife in their schools .I guess some people are immune to some viruses
The great plague didn't kill everyone, despite poor hygiene and no vaccine!

I think it’s fascinating. I sleep next to dh who had symptoms, and not caught it. Was in a car for three hours driving someone with it.

Over 50% of the staff in the school I work in caught it in Nov-Dec 2020 and I work pretty closely with several of them (and had to isolate due to close contact with one who has no sense of personal space, let alone 2m distances!), but didn’t get it, so far as I’m aware. Haven’t ever had a positive on lateral flow tests since I started doing those, either. I’ve been assuming I have just been lucky to date - lots of low level exposure but no massive doses that would guarantee getting ill, maybe? Even the recent horrid non-covid bugs everyone around me has been getting I haven’t got - just very minor symptoms really late on that didn't go anywhere. Pre-covid I was not normally one of those people who never got ill at all (although I haven’t been ill enough to get any type of secondary infection since an ear infection in childhood, so not a hugely sickly sort of a person!). I got a horrid flu after Christmas 2018, though, and the cough from that took ages to go away. Since then, I’ve been remarkably healthy. Touching huge amounts of wood. Not appearing to be prone to anything much in the last 3 years makes me think it’s luck more than some unusual imperviousness to covid specifically!

I had it mildly March 2020. Then mRNA vaccines. My vaccine and natural antibodies still measure off the chart. I’ve had loads of contacts since, work in a hospital, on tube daily. nursed my mum when she had it, didn’t catch it off DD.

I didn't catch it off a patient who falsely tested negative. High flow O2, coughing and spluttering everywhere. Only a,surgical mask on. But I did catch it off dp who wasn't particularly coughing and slept in a separate room, socially distanced.

I had antibodies in the summer of 2020, never knew I’d had covid.
I’ve since had 3 Pfizer vaccines and despite working in a high exposure environment and the kids going to schools with high rates of the virus, none of us have been ill.
The kids were involved in an antibody study but that finished in February of this year and neither of them had antibodies on any of the 3 tests

I also had it March 2020 and have not caught it again since. Nor has any other adults that I know who were sick at that time.
I have also had high exposure to COVID from children.

Really interesting I’d love to know more about immunity / natural immunity etc.

My brother's wife had it twice, they live together. He's been traveling throughout to the likes of Turkey etc for business. He had his FIRST jab 2 days ago & didn't get it. He's been asked to donate his serum for analysis 😅.

Oh and he's antibody negative.

Interesting. I’d love to know if it’s related to other vaccines (read something about recent MMR) or blood types or things.

I had it in dec 2020, had 2 AZ vaccines since and despite being around loads of kids and teenagers weekly havent caught it again.
DH slept in bed with me & never caught it, and my kids are still clear too (one in secondary).

My friend is double jabbed with AZ & she just caught it. Very mildly thankfully.

In fact, she is only the 2nd person in my close circle to catch it & both mildly. One a 50+ yo overweight bloke working in the NHS had it in April 2020 & my friend now.