Source | Jimu News
According to the " Daily Mail ", 56-year-old John Hollis, in Georgia, USA, was found to have "super blood", which made him one of the most immune people to the new coronavirus in the world. Tests show that even if his blood is diluted 10,000 times, it can still kill 90% of the new coronavirus. What's more amazing is that the antibodies in his body not only exist in large quantities, but their effectiveness will not weaken with time. Moreover, he is also immune to increasingly powerful virus variants, and scientists believe his "super immunity" can even be powerful enough to resist SARS.
Hollis is a spokesperson for George Mason University in Georgia. This discovery stems from a study he participated in on a whim.
George Mason University, Georgia (Source: Photo Wall)
According to Hollis, there are only 4 people in the world who are recognized as having this special immunity, and he is one of them. But despite this, scientists say that as many as one percent of people who are almost completely immune to the virus may be as many as one percent.
In the summer of 2020, Lance Leota, co-director of the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine at George Mason University, asked Hollis to prepare a press release calling on people exposed to the coronavirus to participate in a study he is conducting.
Co-director of the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine at George Mason University made this surprising discovery (Source: George Mason University)
Hollis suddenly thought that his roommate was very ill before, but he was fine at all. So Liotta asked Hollis if he would join the study, get tested, and after approval, he collected his saliva and blood samples.
Within two days, Hollis received a call from Leota and told him the shocking news.
Before this discovery, Hollis had been worried that he would be infected and that the virus would take his life. He said he even wrote a letter to his then-17-year-old son to his lawyer friend to pass it on to his son when he died.
But now that has changed, he said: "It means I can go to a haircut or buy groceries with more confidence, because these are no longer life-and-death matters."
Leota said that Hollis had been infected with the new coronavirus before and produced powerful antibodies. After
, Hollis recalled that he woke up in April 2020 and found his nose was congested. He believed that he might have been infected with the virus at that time, which is what Leota thought, when his body produced "super antibodies".
Hollis worked as a sports reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Liotta told the newspaper: "Hollis is a person with high immunity . He has never had any real symptoms of COVID-19."
. Hollius said he is happy to have this immunity , hoping that these findings can help others better fight the COVID-19 virus.