We all know someone who has not come down with COVID during this pandemic. Maybe it's even you. (I was in that category for a long time ... until the new omicron variants came along and got me.)
That's a question that researchers are investigating: Is there a genetic reason why some people have not caught SARS-CoV-2?
In human history, scientists have only discovered two instances of a genetic mutation giving immunity to a disease. That would be for HIV and norovirus.
The final results aren't yet in for COVID superdodgers but early findings are extremely interesting, as Michaeleen Doucleff reports in this week's blockbuster story: "So you haven't caught COVID yet. Does that mean you're a superdodger."
'No Sex for Fish' has had an unexpected revival In 2019 NPR profiled a group of women fishmongers in a Kenyan village who wanted to put a stop to the transactional sex that fishermen often demanded before giving them a catch of fish to sell. The women got grants to build their own boats, hired guys to fish for them and flipped the power dynamic -- until floods inundated their village and pretty much wiped out their small fleet. Now the flood waters have receded and with the help of a new grant the women are building three new boats. "We are very happy," says Justine Adhiambo Obura, a founding member of the group.
Anne Frank's words resonate in a secret Kabul book club for girls The Taliban banned secondary education for girls. In one secret book club, teens gather to discuss a book from another era that they find deeply relevant: Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl.
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