Meet the ‘super-dodgers’ of Covid: from a teacher who somehow escaped the virus that devastated his classrooms to a 68-year-old business owner who thinks he must have ‘special blood’

It is one of the biggest mysteries of the Covid pandemic.

How have thousands of people managed to avoid getting infected, despite being so obviously exposed to the virus?

Yet others who have battled Covid and accepted numerous vaccinations still manage to contract the virus, apparently with ease.

The so-called ‘super-dodgers’ of Covid have even baffled scientists.

Could his apparent immunity simply be due to sheer luck? Is it possible, instead, that they were infected at some point in the last three years but never detected by tests?

Or could it all be explained because they possess some kind of superpower, one that makes them naturally resistant to Covid? Researchers tasked with understanding the phenomenon believe that this is, in fact, the most likely answer.

Just this week, scientists discovered what they believe to be genetic evidence to back up the theory.

But for now, super dodgers are still scratching their heads, wondering exactly why, or how, they’ve lasted so long without falling victim to those pesky Covid symptoms…

Music teacher peter doors he thinks it’s a ‘rarity’ that he managed to dodge Covid for so long.

The 60-year-old guitarist regularly visits four high schools to give students music lessons and says he obviously often comes into contact with the virus.

Gates, who lives in Hemel Hampstead, added that during the pandemic, his wife Phan, 47, and their twin seven-year-old daughters, Amelia and Elizabeth, contracted the virus. But strangely, he didn’t.

“I was doing lateral flow tests every day for the past year and you would have thought if I had no symptoms one of them would have worked,” he told MailOnline.

But none of them tested positive.

And although he did not have the vaccine when he first returned, Gates managed to avoid covid during those first months.

He said: ‘I have a friend who is a doctor and he suggested that I might have contracted it and be asymptomatic and I didn’t realize it.

‘Because I am a teacher, we had to do lateral flow tests twice a week.

“Throughout the pandemic I was testing and if I had caught it, I’m sure one of them would have worked.”

Janet Bailey, 64, was worried about contracting covid because she was diabetic, but to her knowledge, she never caught it.

janet baileyA 64-year-old from Birmingham, she is diabetic and was understandably concerned that her state of health could leave her more vulnerable to covid.

But, three years later, he claims that he has never had the virus.

The mother of three, who works in finance, received the vaccine as soon as she became eligible but still doesn’t think that explains what is causing her immunity.

Ms Bailey says she has been around relatives with confirmed covid and has taken public transport during rush hour and somehow managed to dodge it.

For example, Mrs. Bailey’s 27-year-old daughter, Laura-Jane, was infected twice and both times she lived at home.

Ms Bailey said: ‘I just had a little cold at first and we went out for Sunday lunch.

“I was trying his cocktail and I tried his food, we were sharing utensils, we were close and hugging.

“The next day he took a test and he had covid.”

But Ms. Bailey’s test was negative.

She said: ‘Lots of people lived with me who had it and never had it. Because I do not know.

Business owner David Bone, 68, from Upminster in Essex, says his whole family got Covid and he didn’t.

david boneThe 68-year-old from Upminster in Essex is another who is surprised that he has never caught covid.

He runs a family business that installs blinds in people’s homes, but he managed to avoid the mistake during the pandemic.

Mr Bone has had diabetes for 35 years and is controlled with an insulin pump.

Describing himself as a positive person, he said: ‘I wasn’t too worried about getting Covid.

I did not strive for it, but I did not lock myself in the house.

He added: ‘The whole family has had it, why didn’t I get it?’

Bone explained that he even escaped infection when his wife had covid, despite the two sharing a bed while she was ill.

With no idea how he’s dodged it for so long, Mr. Bone joked that perhaps he had “special blood”.

Amber Vasquez, 45, of Texas (left) and her daughter Athena, 20 (right) managed to avoid contracting the covid despite several hospital visits during the

Amber VasquezA 45-year-old graphic artist who lives in Texas, says she feels immune to covid.

Somehow, he has never caught it, despite having made several hospital visits at the start of the pandemic.

In March 2020, when covid began, her 20-year-old daughter Athena had a major spinal incident and was paralyzed from the waist down.

“We were in the hospital for about five days and finally everything was back to normal,” he told MailOnline.

“But for a while we went in and out of the hospital with her, and she never got covid and I never got covid.”

Ms Vásquez added: ‘My daughter and I have been in the same situations and we never realized it.

Not even a cold. We tested every time we were exposed.

Ms. Vásquez confesses that she is not in the best shape and previously smoked 20 cigarettes a day, so she was worried about what might happen if she caught covid.

She said: ‘I was scared to die when the pandemic started.

“I had a friend the same age as me who was also overweight and he died.

And I thought I was next.

I spent the first year waiting to die.

‘But now I feel immune, I’m not going to try to get it.

Mike Thorne, 67, a plumber from Ramsgate in Kent, says he is ‘famous’ for not getting sick

Mike ThorneThe 67-year-old, from Ramsgate in Kent, says he is ‘famous’ for not getting sick.

The plumber continued to work during the pandemic, and although he was initially worried about contracting covid, he eventually decided there was “no point in worrying about it.”

And to this day, Thorne has not tested positive for covid.

This is despite the fact that both his wife Cherise, 47, and their daughter Imogen, 20, were infected with covid.

However, your immunity could run in your family. The father-of-two said that, as far as he knows, his son Alexander, 22, has also dodged the virus.

Mr Thorne said: “My son is very much like me, we both heal easily and quickly and don’t contract much.”

‘I can’t remember the last time I had a cold.

‘Seriously, it was at least more than five years ago.

‘I can be around people dripping from every orifice and I don’t catch anything.

I am well known for it.